Is the ASRock Z97 Extreme4 reliable?

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I was about to get the ASRock Z97 Extreme4 based on Tom's Hardware smart buy recommendation. However I've been reading about problems with the MOBO in various failure modes.
Is this a good MOBO or not? If not, what else would you recommend along the same price range?
 
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Justdwyer
If you have been looking at the Extreme4, I'm sure you've come across the reddit page about it. I had the same power on issue detailed there, had to RMA, it has been working fine since I got the replacement though. Like junkeymonkey said, any board can be a lemon, my issue with recommending the ASRock is that the issue seems to be the same for a lot of people. They claim to have fixed it, but there is no way of knowing if you get one of the newer boards or one from the bad batch if you order it. Personally, I think it has great features for the price, but I do think the risk of a bad one is slightly higher than normal.
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any brand can have there pitfalls and short comings or be a lemon -- we all had then at one time -- I was skeptical about asrock and just tried them with there z87 extreme 6 and a good year latter so far so good . I would rank it as one of my most issue free boards to date ..

one thing to see if the reports are from quality or leans toward what could be from user abuse ??

thing is like at newegg seems all intel boards got low egg ratings lie around 53% 5 egg so I look at it as a intel build thing it works as expected or it don't [any brand ]

 
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If you have been looking at the Extreme4, I'm sure you've come across the reddit page about it. I had the same power on issue detailed there, had to RMA, it has been working fine since I got the replacement though. Like junkeymonkey said, any board can be a lemon, my issue with recommending the ASRock is that the issue seems to be the same for a lot of people. They claim to have fixed it, but there is no way of knowing if you get one of the newer boards or one from the bad batch if you order it. Personally, I think it has great features for the price, but I do think the risk of a bad one is slightly higher than normal.
 
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i've had 2 Asus boards, 2 ASRock boards, and 2 Gigabyte boards (from what i can recall, over the past 7 years or so). the only board i ever had any issues with was a Gigabyte, and it was just incompatibility with some of my SSDs. i'd build with an ASRock in a heartbeat.
 
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I know it's an old thread, but I thought i'd also say the Asrock Z97 Extreme4 is a good board for the money. I've owned mine since August last year and I've never had the power issue that some others have had (they are probably the minority when compared to how many of these boards would have been sold worldwide!). Been running an i7 4790k since the day I bought it and it's been great. I've upgraded it a couple of times when it comes to the RAM, GPU and storage since I've owned it and it's always booted up just fine :).

 
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