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    ASRock Z87 Fatal1ty Professional gets unboxed

    ASRock will showcase its complete lineup of Z87 motherboards at Computex 2013. The company is introducing new A-Style features in their motherboards which will enhance users’ experience with Haswell Processors. Just before the launch, a complete unboxing of the ASRock Z87 Fatal1ty has been posted online revealing the classic brown PCB with red and black color scheme.
    ASRock Z87 Fatal1ty Specifications:

    • Supports 4th Generation Intel Core i series processors in LGA1150 package
    • 12 phase Digital VRM design
    • Dual BIOS
    • Four DDR3 DIMM RAM slots
    • Three PCI-e 3.0 x16 slots
    • One PCI-e x1 slot
    • Two Legacy PCI slots
    • One mini-PCIe slot
    • Ten SATA III 6GB/s ports
    • Sound Core 3D audio
    • Dual Intel Ethernet ports
    • HDMI-In
    • Display Outputs include HDMI & Display Port
    • Four USB 3.0 ports at back I/O and two internal connectors
    • Four USB 2.0 ports at back I/O and two internal connectors
    • DeBug LED
    [IMG]http://www.chiploco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ASRock-Z87-Fatal1ty-_4.jpg[IMG]

    English Source: ChipLoco

    Chinese Source: XFastest

    I am not really impressed from what motherboard manufacturers are doing this time. None of them are bringing anything new apart from MSI i think. Their new XPower series seems to be pretty good.
    Last edited by BicycleMafioso; 2013-05-29 at 10:03 PM.

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    What on earth would you need /10/ SATA III connections for?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NightZero88 View Post
    What on earth would you need /10/ SATA III connections for?
    For 10 drives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Faithh View Post
    For 10 drives.
    10 SSD's gotta put them all to good use

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    Anyone with a hot swap, optical drive, and several HDDs / SSDs runs out of room on a 6 SATA III connector Mobo.

    Aveline's amazing work!

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    Quote Originally Posted by NightZero88 View Post
    What on earth would you need /10/ SATA III connections for?
    One RAID 5 array, one RAID 6 array and an optical.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Valiea View Post
    Anyone with a hot swap, optical drive, and several HDDs / SSDs runs out of room on a 6 SATA III connector Mobo.
    Mechanical hard drives have no performance gain running on SATA III, then again they just made them all SATA III instead of the mix we have today, which can't hurt I guess.

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    who would need 10 drives of any kind seriously unless your some guy who loves to much porn, the average person will need a max of 3 drives less as years go by with datasize increase the next data up from terrabyte is petabyte i think most people i know have 2 drives an SSD for games and OS and other programs they use alot and a standard HDD for storage, only a moron would use all 10 sata connectors on that board

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    Quote Originally Posted by Notarget View Post
    Mechanical hard drives have no performance gain running on SATA III, then again they just made them all SATA III instead of the mix we have today, which can't hurt I guess.
    Maybe not mechanical, but SSHD's are going to start catching on, Seagate has a couple of offerings that are worth investing in if you are looking for larger storage at a better price while gaining speed over a regular mechanical drive. I use a Momentus XT for my Steam games and it runs boatloads faster then my 2TB WD Caviar Black drive.

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    12 phase vrm design.. I'm kinda wondered if Asrock did anything to redesign the VRM & cooling. Not that I've heard great news from the z77 extreme4 cooling wise and especially the vcore is like 0,06V higher (measured with a Vmeter) than the bios or cpu-z reports.

    At post #289 a gigabyte being how it should be.

    Boards like that Id only use for stock settings really or to cheat on OC leaderboards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Faithh View Post
    12 phase vrm design.. I'm kinda wondered if Asrock did anything to redesign the VRM & cooling. Not that I've heard great news from the z77 extreme4 cooling wise and especially the vcore is like 0,06V higher (measured with a Vmeter) than the bios or cpu-z reports.

    At post #289 a gigabyte being how it should be.

    Boards like that Id only use for stock settings really or to cheat on OC leaderboards.
    I've to agree with you. I dont really see anything new with ASRock boards. Not atleast in terms of stuff that matters.

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    We're kind of hitting a point where all manufacturers end up having the same feature-set almost. Though I wouldn't make an entire judgement of ASRock based purely on their workstation board. ASRock has offered boards at a budget price while still being able to retain significant feature-set over other manufacturers. They also don't typically charge a premium such as Asus and still offer quality parts.


    That being said... Gigabyte's new 1080p UEFI Bios is looking quite nice
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    Gigabyte's new 1080p UEFI Bios is looking quite nice
    Sweet. High def text so I can stream HD video of turning off my FDD boot and Serial port that doesnt exist option once.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chazus View Post
    Sweet. High def text so I can stream HD video of turning off my FDD boot and Serial port that doesnt exist option once.

    It's definitely better than the eyesore of 1024x768 for people who actually spend time in bios overclocking and such.



    Edit: It also looks nice :P

    Last edited by Saithes; 2013-05-30 at 05:56 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saithes View Post
    We're kind of hitting a point where all manufacturers end up having the same feature-set almost. Though I wouldn't make an entire judgement of ASRock based purely on their workstation board. ASRock has offered boards at a budget price while still being able to retain significant feature-set over other manufacturers. They also don't typically charge a premium such as Asus and still offer quality parts.


    That being said... Gigabyte's new 1080p UEFI Bios is looking quite nice
    yeah my old asrock n68c-s ucc board costs me £30 it supports upto x6 phenoms! can support ddr3 can unlock my cpu core and stuff like that not bad for a cheapo motherboard but i got my new board today my asrock 970 extreme3

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