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The product arrives in a dramatic, artistically designed red and black box with a picture of Fatal1ty himself on the front.
Inside the outer sleeve, the motherboard ships in the first box, while the accessories are in the second.
The bundle is extremely comprehensive with sata cables, cable adapters, literature, a software disc, USB 3.0 header panel and an SLI connector.
The board is based on the Intel P67 chipset and is a slot 1155 socket design. ASrock have incorporated Premium Gold Caps- 100% Japan-made high-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors for extra life (2.5 times) and stability. ASRock have two holes cut into the CPU mounting area so people can use their older slot 775 coolers to save money.
The board is populated with heavy duty heatsinks, across all the voltage regulation board sections. These match the board red and black theme.
There are four ram slots, which are populated in a two channel configuration – marked red and black. The bios can support memory up to DDR3-2133mhz speeds in dual channel mode.
The P67 Fatal1ty supports AMD and nVidia multi graphics card configurations. Configurations up to Quad CrossFire and Quad SLi are supported out of the box. An ASmedia processor is used to supply PCI from PCIe x1.
The board supports dual PCIe Gigibit ethernet with teaming function. There is also a single eSATA port on the rear, a Fatal1ty mouse port, a 1394 port, 3 USB 3.0 ports, 6 Sata 3 connectors, three Sata 2 connectors and a front USB 3.0 header which also supports USB 3.0 (via another EtronTech processor). Coaxial and Digital SPDIF are included. ASRock use the EltronTech USB 3.0 connector saying that this is a faster controller when compared to the NEC configuration. There is also a handy diagnostic display readout, right above handy reset and power buttons.
Looks the part, thats for sure. nice specs. They are never a company I consider when im looking at a motherboard however.
great looking product, no doubt about it.
Layout looks good, i wouldnt be so sure about jumping from Asus mind you yet, early days for them in this sector/
I wouldn’t mind one of these for my new system next month, but im waiting on an MSI big bang board whenever that is scheduled. anyone know?
Interesting to see ASROCk trying to break their older reputation for releasing poorly configured but cheap products. they seem to be doing well this year so far.
Excellent all round specifications and build quality. pricing isnt too bad either, although for 60 more you can get into the X58 sector.
I love red and black, wicked. Just hate to see that guys face everywhere, very annoying!
Previously I was only looking at Gigabyte and Asus (in that order) but lately I start to notice MSI and now ASRock… interesting…
There is almost no reason to get this board when the ASRock Extreme 4 is basically the exact same board without the silly fatality mouse port and red colors while being $40 cheaper.
And you don’t have to stare at the guy’s face while in UEFI :p
Oops, meant the extreme6, not extreme4
I just ordered one – hope its clocks my 2600k well