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ASRock sent us their P67 Extreme4 motherboard, and we used it for a substantial portion of our 2500k testing today, it proved to be both stable and feature packed. A new beta bios was sent to us a short while before the review.
The bundle is fully loaded with four high quality SATA cables, SLI connector, USB 3.0 front mounted header. Literature, manual and software/driver disc.
The board is populated with DuraCap and 1005 Japan made high quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors which give up to a 2.5 longer life – it is also a V8+2 Power Phase Design. The board also fully supports the unlocked K series processors. The Extreme4 delivers support for memory up to DDR3-2133mhz via overclocking profiles and a Debug LED is included on the board for diagnosis support.
There is full support for ATI CrossfireX, up to a Quad configuration. nVidia SLI is also supported, up to a Quad configuration.
The board supports dual USB 3.0 both front and rear with four Sata 3 connectors and 1 eSATA 3 connector, with 2 x IEEE 1394 ports.
7.1 CH HD audio with Content Protection is offered via the RealTek ALC892 Audio Codec with full THX TruStudio Pro also available. Board design is very good with 90 degree mounted SATA cables and nothing blocking any of the PCI slots. We were also able to fit the oversized Noctua NH D14 cooler without any issues around the CPU socket.
Wow, those are mega processors. have to get me one
Great article and they really are good improvements. poor amd 🙁
These are certainly impressive, especially considering the price points they have achieved, which I certainlyw asnt expecting.
Compared to the last generation they have certainly delivered much faster processors. I wasnt expecting such huge gains
That ASRock fatal1ty board looks stunning doesnt it ? Very impressive overall platform from everyone involved.
Thumbs up from me. waiting in line like everyone else for my chip now 🙂
Those intel boards are really nice designs, they seem to getting better and better as the years and releases continue.
Well I had almost bought a 1100T from AMd, and now I really don’t know what to do 🙁 these are so damn good and the price points are excellent. the 1100T costs around the same as the 2600K and it wont really go past 4.3ghz.
There is a clear reason Intel are market leaders, and this is a good showcase of why.
Excellent, count me in when I get the funds up.
AMD need to answer this with something good in 2011, but I am not sure they can anymore. I remember the good old days of FX processors when they led the way. whatever happened 🙁
not that much faster than the 2010 core cpu’s people who say they are are complete idiots on avg perormance increase is about 10%
Francis, you’re completely wrong, it’s not that much faster at all, it’s anywhere between -5( meaning slower) to +10 as john already stated