Should one assume these *87 boards ship with a bios that doesn't support Haswell-R?
EDIT: FWIW I just picked up an ASRock Z87M Extreme4 at my local Micro Center and it had the latest bios that supports Haswell-R. The box had a "New Version" sticker on it. I've read reports to the contrary, so I...
Great boards. I have a gigabyte G41 running built about two years ago after a s775 mobo failure. With DDR3 and a 3.2ghz wolfdale pentium, it's a pretty snappy machine.
No bios mod necessary. I installed the iso created by the upgrade assistant. I purchased this ugrade from a Win7 laptop bought at Micro Center last year.
Just got mine. More compact than I thought and it is pretty light (all plastic.) Unexpectedly, though, the power connector is on the left side, close to the front. There's worse things, but it is ugly IMO.
The first one I got a few years ago is still going strong. The second one I RMA'd due to excessively loud coil whine. This was the last time they were sub $20. Hope these are better this time.
But it has DVI, which is compatible with HDMI with an adapter.
+1 for boards like this. I have another MSI H67 with 3570K for the HD4000, and an ASUS H61 with 16GB RAM and a SB Pentium G620 in my server. Both rigs are like gease lightning.
Grails apps in NetBeans, light asp.net development in VS 2010. Good enough for the price. (also have lots of RAM) I used to have a 2600K and got out of crunching and folding, and downsized to the extreme. :)
Awesome, and thanks for the 15% off code too, Ricochet! I just put a $50 x-mas newegg gift cert to use, and got these for $30.74 shipped! And don't forget ebates too :)
^^ Good strategy, Meghan54.
I called Newegg and insisted it was defective and that I did not want to pay return shipping. They cut me a pre-paid UPS label along with waiving the restocking fee.
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