ASRock Fatal1ty X99 Professional Gaming i7, Intel X99 motherboard - LGA 2011-V3

 For this purpose, on the enthusiast board a fresh base – the LGA2011-V3 – present, which is not compatible with earlier Extreme CPUs and thus alone will the new Intel top processors reserved.

But all power users and hardware fools who opt for a Broadwell-E / X99-team, receive in return not only the brachialste, never before encountered in the consumer area processor performance, no, they also acquire more features, over which yesterday was rumored still awesome as tomorrow: so Intel Extreme CPUs come first with integrated DDR4 memory controller, so that X99 motherboards have appropriate RAM banks in which potters of even faster and thereby energy efficient DDR4 RAM.

In addition, many X99 boards have the next-gen interfaces for SSDs called SATA Express (SATAE) and Pattern 2 (NGFF), the first time with the Z97 chipset and the 1150s Intel mainstream processors ( Haswell Refresh / Devils Canyon) reached the market. Unlike the latter, however, provide the Broadwell-It not only 16, but up to 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes available, which is why the fastest M.2 SSDs also be connected (via compatible motherboard slots) with maximum speed via 4 Lanes can without abzuzwacken data lines to the graphics card.

At ASRock X99 Professional Gaming i7 is a particularly lush equipped X99 motherboard for enthusiasts that for mega strong Extreme processors the Core i7-5000er- and 6000 series with its 6, 8 or even 10 cores an ideal base represents. The black and red board comes with eight DIMM slots for up to 128GB DDR4 memory in super snappy quad-channel mode. As sound chip of Realtek ALC1150 is at Bo (a) rd which can output five audio jacks and an optical S / PDIF connector 7.1 sound.

The further connectivity drops on the high-end chipset from perfectly adequate, the ATX motherboard provides total (partly external, partly internal) two USB 3.1 ports (1x type A and C) eight USB 3.0 ports and six USB 2.0 ports available and manages hard drives and SSDs over ten SATA 6G ports (incl. RST and RAID support) and two M.2 slots (PCIe 3.0 x4). Graphics cards are also three PCI Express x16 slots in Standard 3.0 is available as plug-in and expansion cards to stay in two PCIe 2.0 x1 slots.

The ASRock X99 Professional Gaming i7 with integrated WiFi and Bluetooth module, which even supports the particularly fast ac-Fi standard, convinced moreover with two Gbit LAN ports and many other useful features.

Technical details:
Format: ATX
Color: Black, Red
Chipset: Intel X99
Socket: 2011-V3 (for Intels Haswell-E & Broadwell-E CPUs)
RAM: 8x DDR4 (max 128 GB, 3.300+ MHz [OC].)
Quad-Channel
Slots (physically):
2x PCIe (3.0) x16
1x PCIe (3.0) x16 (electrical x8)
Compatible Multi-VGA configurations: Quad SLI / CrossFireX Quad
2x PCIe (2.0) x1
1x M.2 Key E (occupied by WiFi / BT)
Internal connections:
10x SATA 6G (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, RST 13, of which 2 by SATA Express)
1x SATA Express
2x M.2 NGFF (PCIe 3.0 x4)
4x USB 3.0 (2x header)
4x USB 2.0 (2x header)
1x Serial Port (COM)
1x TPM
5x fan (2x 4-pin, 4x 3-Pin)
Debug / Overclocking Switches & LEDs
Power / Reset / LED / Front-Audio
External connections:
1x PS / 2 keyboard / mouse
2x USB 3.1 (1 x Type A and Type C)
4x USB 3.0
2x USB 2.0 (1x dedicated Fatal1ty mouse port)
1x Clear CMOS Switch
2x Gigabit LAN (I218-V / I211AT)
2x wireless antenna (supplied)
1x S / PDIF optical
5x audio (7.1, Realtek ALC1150)
Power supply:
1x 24-pin ATX
1x 8-pin ATX12V