Wednesday, January 2nd 2008
ASRock Launches its First High-end Motherboard
ASRock has recently launched its first high-end motherboard, the 4Core1600P35-WiFi+ adopting Intel's P35 chipset. Although the P35 will only support up to 1333MHz FSB officially, ASRock has enabled support for up to 1600MHz. In addition to solid capacitors and overclock control software, the motherboard features the Realtek ALC890 chip for sound, and also built-in IEEE 802.11g. ASRock is also planning to soon launch motherboards adopting NVIDIA's nForce 650i and 680i chipsets, according to the company. Finally, the board supports Dual Channel DDR3 1333/1066/800 (2x DIMM slots) and Dual Channel DDR2 1066/800/667 (4x DIMM slots) memory.
Source:
DigiTimes
19 Comments on ASRock Launches its First High-end Motherboard
I wonder what wi-fi chip its using and how good it is.
asus,gigabyte etc then deffinatly not an asrock
if you think about things a little more logically, it sucks having to drag a sata cable right from the back of the mobo to the front making a mess. now its simple & easy with less cable clutter & possibly save a few cents/pennies but making the E-sata cable a little shorter so it doesnt have to stretch the full length of your mobo - it might be a small saving but meh, no matter how little the saving at least its a saving
and i agree with snuif09
why not just buy an asus who have high-end motherboards down pat already?
nice try asrock and no thanks.
I must be missing something here.
too bad they'll do something with the board to make it not so fun to own. but it will be cheap compared to similar offerings from other motherboard manufacturers, so why not.
2x PCI-E (crossfire)
DDR2 and DDR3
Yorkfield and wolfdale support, 7x sata, onboard wifi...
Great features, hopefully cheap too.
Only question is, whats with the second PCI-E slot? why a different color, and why the random clip at the end the white one doesnt have?
How many PCI-E 1x cards do you have anyway?
They are currently using up the second and third x16 Slot of my Bad Axe.
The board does look quite nice and as long as they include voltage control it should overclock reasonably well. (my old dual vsata that is not in my parents pc took my E4300 up to 2.4ghz (and a celeron D 356 up to 4.3ghz) but it could go no further due to a lack of voltage adjustments.)
I think it will be one of those boards that will be a good all rounder, reasonable overclocking features, decent specs/ on board features, nice addition of DDR2 and DDR3 support and all for a decent price.