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ASRock unveils X99 Extreme11 motherboard that features 18 SATA 6Gbps connectors!

By Wong Chung Wee - on 10 Oct 2014, 3:24pm

ASRock unveils X99 Extreme11 motherboard that features 18 SATA 6Gbps connectors!

ASRock has just announced the X99 Extreme11 motherboard with 18 SATA 6Gbps connectors! It boasts of an all-digital 12 power phase design, with support for Intel Core i7 and Xeon processors in the LGA 2011-v3 package.

ASRock X99 Extreme11 (Image source: ASRock)

Its power delivery components consists of the new Ultra Dual-N MOSFETs, which boast of cooler operations, premium chokes, and Nichicon 12K platinum capacitors. The new MOSFETs appear to be similar to Gigabyte’s PowIRstage IR3550 MOSFETs that were first featured at Computex two years ago. Like its predecessor, the X79 Extreme11, the new board has a pair of PLX PEX 8747 controller chips, allowing it to support a total of forty-eight PCIe lanes! As a result, 4-way SLI or CrossFireX configurations at x16/x16/x16/x16 mode with four graphics cards are possible. In the event of such a setup, the board has two onboard PCIe power connectors for additional power.

(Image source: ASRock)

As a high-end board, it comes with a LSI SAS 3008 controller that drives eight SAS-3/SATA 6Gbps connectors. The other 10 SATA connectors are connected to its Intel X99 PCH, which is cooled by a heatsink with a built-in fan. There are two Ultra M.2 slots whose implementation makes more sense, when paired with the Intel X99 chipset, as each slot connect directly to the PCIe lanes of the supported LGA 2011-3 processor. Furthermore, the company claims the board is able to support two M.2 x4 SSDs, and each has a performance bandwidth of 2.8GB/s or 22.4Gp/s. Its onboard audio system is driven by the Purity Sound 2 technology. Last of all, to cap its list of premium features, the board supports quad-channel DDR4 memory modules that have been rated to operate up to 3,200MHz. Its eight DIMM slots can take up to 128GB of system memory. For more details, please visit the board’s product page.

(Source: ASRock)

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