ASrock X79 motherboard sneaks onto the net

Carl Muller September 30, 2011 Motherboard

A picture of the upcoming ASrock X79 board has made appearance on the internet, via various Far East websites. We snagged the picture for our readers today.

We have reviewed many ASRock boards this year, and many of them have won our highest accolades. They are certainly a force to be reckoned with and have been working with legendary gamer Fatal1ty to create a small range of high end enthusiast motherboards. The ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Series Gen 3 Review and ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional Motherboard Review are two shining examples of how they can get it right.

The X79 board from ASRock features active cooling and a plethora of SATA ports. We can also see they are using high quality capacitors across the design ensuring stability when overclocking. With a promise of quad channel memory and some serious horsepower for rendering and encoding duties, this will replace the dated (but still capable) X58 platform. Both SLI and Crossfire will be supported.

We hope to have a review of this board when the new platform launches, sooner rather than later.

Kitguru says: Another wicked looking board from ASRock.

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4 comments

Brian
September 30, 2011 at 11:07 am

Very artistic photo. I agree it does look great. One thing – the fan, its small, and hopefully not loud! I hate to see small fans used on motherboards, they can often add a lot of noise to a system.

lets hope ASROCk dont mess this up.
Brian
September 30, 2011 at 11:12 am

I am sold on ASROCK, I would never have went near them until i read review here this year and I bought the 990fx fat1ty board for bulldozer, I use it right now with my 1090t and its perfect. 4.1ghz stable.

This looks like a hardcore board. unusual to see active cooling.
Roger
September 30, 2011 at 11:13 am

Black PCB, yum.

A lot of SATA ports indeed. I only use 2 ! still, im curious to see how this rumored quad memory works out.