Event Coverage

Computex 2011 Show Coverage - Part 2

By Vincent Chang - 2 Jun 2011

ASRock's Booth

ASRock's Booth

ASRock has signed up former professional gamer Jonathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel in its bid to raise its profile in the motherboard market, especially with enthusiasts and gamers and there's a series of Fatal1ty branded motherboards.

Like other motherboard vendors, ASRock was ready to display its X79 based board, the Extreme4. From what we can tell, it looks like a retail unit. 3-way SLI and CrossFireX and up to 12 SATA ports are some of the features you can expect.

ASRock's Extreme7 version of the Z68 chipset is without a doubt ASRock's highest end offering for this chipset. It has five PCIe 2.0 slots with support for quad CrossFireX and SLI. It also has a whopping four display outputs, including DisplayPort. Along with up to 6 USB 3.0 ports, this is one high-end board.

This is the Fatal1ty branded Z68 Professional. It comes with three PCIe 2.0 x16 slots with support for 3-way SLI/CrossFireX. It also has four display outputs, with two HDMI ports. 6 USB 3.0 ports are present, including one special Fala1ty mouse USB port.

ASRock's 990FX Extreme4 supports up to 2000MHz DDR3 memory and comes with a graphics UEFI BIOS. Three PCIe 2.0 x16 slots support both SLI and CrossFireX (3-way).

The A75 Extreme6 is based on AMD's A75 FCH chipset, with integrated AMD Radeon HD 65XX/64XX series graphics. Analog VGA, HDMI and DVI outputs are present, but you can install your own multi-GPU setups (only CrossFireX is supported).

The miniITX version of the A75 chipset, the A75M-ITX has two display outputs (HDMI and analog VGA) and one PCIe 2.0 x16 slot.

The exterior may look unchanged, but inside this Vision 3D HTPC now uses the mobile Intel HM65 chipset, with an Intel Core i7-2620M processor and an NVIDIA GeForce GT540M graphics. It has 4GB of DDR3 memory and a Blu-ray combo drive.

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