running z97 extreme6. everything is fine.

if the location of m.2 slots can be located in areas with better air flow instead of covered by gpus, it will be very nice. the current m.2 ssds in the market run hot. for now it's best to use one with heat sink. (a pcie adapter with heat sink)

hopefully this year's ssd releases will have better controllers that have no overheating issues.

exactly. although i have a third-party pcie adapter to remedy this, i waste a pcie slot. (was planning to have a sli setup initially)

this is great! i am running mine with slight oc also lol

yeah that's the better location. i was all excited about ultra m.2 slots previously and overlooked this part lol

most recent updates showed that ssd manufacturers are looking at the issues, and there are new controllers with less heat issues announced, i'm gonna make use of the slot when they are available. for now the adapter works great. (really reluctant to switch to sata when you can get a raw speed of over 1GB/s with pcie hehe)

edit: checking out the layouts of other models (z97, x99), it seemed that only z97 extreme4 is the only one with better location for ultra m.2 slot.

This post has been edited by horns: Jan 17 2015, 11:37 PM

i know. the same goes to their WS. i checked the mobo layouts of all models from their manuals lol!

don't get me wrong. i'm not complaining because i am actually a happy asrock user.

i just think asrock can do better in the next revisions if any

by the way there was a nvme support added in the recent bios update (1.60 iinm). does this mean asrock mobos support nvme ssd now?

nice

can we get the add-on card separately?

oh ok.

oh i thought it's just driver-based, because it's a pcie addon.

i am happy about asrock's innovations. however x99 in an m-itx form imo is wasting a lot of extendability. (i.e. more ram slots, more pcie slots. maybe i cannot afford to do that yet hehe)

x99 is the chip that i will go for, but i will get atx or e-atx for long-term use.

i have to agree that these are honest answers

by the way if possible please consider selling usb-c addon cards separately. it's good for asrock users.

sweet thanks a lot. although i am out of slots i still wanna keep one hehe

nonononono the more the merrier! but i think you can put 2x 32gb ddr4 into this mitx mobo.

http://www.kingston.com/jp/memory/search/?...d=kvr21l15q4/32

the 'problem' is that it's about 2.7k per piece.

maybe you should wait for a bit. the new ones should come with usb 3.1 cards, i think.

ok hehe

for some reasons there are certain models that are always not available in Malaysia. (maybe their distributions are based on market demands)

yes, and it's supposed to be that way. (i.e. consumers not knowing what's going on behind the scene) all it matters to us consumers is when we wanna get something it's there and we just go grab and pay for it hehe

i do hope some day ASRock will work out that something so that we consumers can have some working channels to get what we actually want.

as consumers we are frustrated to see stuffs are not readily available here as advertised. i get that. however i think it's more useful to ask if there are working channels for us to get these niche products locally (maybe via local pre-orders, or asrock appointed online stores if there is one).

just chill and take it easy. it's not good to point the finger to one particular party while the whole thing involves many others that contribute to the actual problem, especially when we only look at consumers' side of things.

i believe ASRockMY is here not because for marketing purposes only, but also get to know more about local market, and to facilitate much better product positioning, customer experience and warranty support.

there are better ways to do things. i believe what works elsewhere should work well locally too. the real question is whether the local industry players are willing to keep up. to me, it's hard to swallow the fact that product availability is actually a problem in this internet age with much better logistics than before.

Saw a x99m killer in idealtech pricelist just now.

maybe bad batch. they should do a rma because they claimed symptoms can be reproduced.

i am using asrock z97 extreme6. unplug countless times and have no such issues.

yeah usually 4-pin is pwn.

for better cable management it's more convenient to use fan splitters.

that's sad :/ the time frame before this thing happened was almost like a few months from that reddit thread.

this kind of things is always a turn-off. let's see if the rma process is less painful than other brands :/

normally for 3-pin fans i guess a 3rd-party fan controller should be used.

besides ultra m.2, this is the one that i am waiting for in laptops also.

for safer bets, always do this in bios screen or dos. windows versions of bios upgrades are kind of risky from my previous experience in other machines (was lucky to be able to recover from them)

yeah i think asrock mobos are satisfying. you will not need to pay more to have the worst frustrations that you can have in personal computing hehe