ASRock X79 Extreme7 Pictured

btarunr · Oct 10, 2011, 08:42 AM

ASRock is readying is new, high-end socket LGA2011 motherboard targeting the upper-most tier of the PC enthusiast market, the X79 Extreme7. This board will be a part of the company's first wave of LGA2011 motherboards, which are slated for mid-November, 2011. Pictures scored by XFastest reveal the board to be filled to the brim with features. The CPU socket is powered by a 16-phase VRM making use of high-grade chokes, and server-grade poscap capacitors.

The socket is wired to six DDR3 DIMM slots arranged in sets of three on either sides of the socket, powered by a 4-phase VRM. Among channels A, B, C, and D; channels B and D have two DIMM slots wired, so if you have four DDR3 modules, you should populate slots 0, 2, 3, and 5; to take advantage of quad-channel DDR3 memory. There are heatsinks over the memory VRM areas, that are connected to the heatsink over the CPU VRM using heat pipes.

Expansion slots include five PCI-Express x16, two of these can run at full-bandwidth PCI-E 3.0 x16, four at PCI-E 3.0 x8 bandwidth (depending on how the slots are populated with add-on cards), one of these is wired to the X79 PCH and is PCI-E 2.0 x4 capable. There's a legacy PCI slot, too.

Storage connectivity includes four SATA 6 Gb/s ports, seven internal SATA 3 Gb/s ports, and one eSATA 3 Gb/s. Other connectivity options include six USB 3.0 ports (two on the rear panel, four via headers), 8+2 channel HD audio with optical and coaxial SPDIF outputs, two gigabit Ethernet connections, FireWire, and a number of USB 2.0 ports.

Source: XFastest

puma99dk| · Oct 10, 2011, 09:18 AM

just me or does AsRock have a fetish of putting atleast one PCI slot on every new motherboard they make? O.o

claylomax · Oct 10, 2011, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by puma99dk|

just me or does AsRock have a fetish of putting atleast one PCI slot on every new motherboard they make? O.o

What's wrong with that?

to6ko91 · Oct 10, 2011, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by puma99dk|

just me or does AsRock have a fetish of putting atleast one PCI slot on every new motherboard they make? O.o

nothing bad in that there are still alot of pci devices worth using

InnocentCriminal · Oct 10, 2011, 09:33 AM

I'd be lost without a single PCI slot.

Animalpak · Oct 10, 2011, 09:56 AM

wow !! Impressive design !

Drone · Oct 10, 2011, 10:20 AM

Looks really badass

pantherx12 · Oct 10, 2011, 10:43 AM

ASROCK!? Why you no do this for your AMD boards?

DrunkenMafia · Oct 10, 2011, 10:49 AM

I don't like the fan on the SB though, imo they are always cheap and noisey as hell. The board looks great !!

SteelSix · Oct 10, 2011, 10:57 AM

I choose ASRock to design the hull of our first interstellar warship.

The power system's heatsink arrary is the most elaborate I've seen. Look at the total surface area. Such a remarkable display of passive cooling design; why active PCH cooling? A step backwards IMO. Looks like a quality fan though; hopefully it's low RPM. We don't want to hear that fan ASRock..

LDNL · Oct 10, 2011, 10:58 AM

That board looks amazing! Theyve really gone all out on this one.

qwerty_lesh · Oct 10, 2011, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by DrunkenMafia

I don't like the fan on the SB though, imo they are always cheap and noisey as hell. The board looks great !!

my thoughts exactly, for such an expensive mobo, why do they go and ruin it with that.
they could have used more heat sink and not needed that horrible SB fan.

puma99dk| · Oct 10, 2011, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by claylomax

What's wrong with that?

Quote:

Originally Posted by to6ko91

nothing bad in that there are still alot of pci devices worth using

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Originally Posted by InnocentCriminal

I'd be lost without a single PCI slot.

still there ain't anything wrong with a PCI-X 32bit slot but still it's a little bit oldschool and i just though it was about time to move on, they even dropped the support for ATA/IDE but i guess that PCI-X will still alive on :/

jalex3 · Oct 10, 2011, 11:21 AM

Looks nice, not sure if I like the north bridge fan or slot pci slot layput though...

Live OR Die · Oct 10, 2011, 11:23 AM

Woo X79 now to wait for evga to release some pics XD

Crap Daddy · Oct 10, 2011, 11:40 AM

So ASRock have made it in the big league of enthusiast boards. It looks great. Just make me wonder how much money you'll need for an SB-E system. As there's no competition in that segment for Intel I would expect to be rather mucho.

Mussels · Oct 10, 2011, 11:52 AM

why is no one else asking how this has "4 channel" ram with 6 slots?

is it quad channel? dual? triple? IT HURTS MY MIND

SteelSix · Oct 10, 2011, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Crap Daddy

So ASRock have made it in the big league of enthusiast boards. It looks great. Just make me wonder how much money you'll need for an SB-E system. As there's no competition in that segment for Intel I would expect to be rather mucho.

Well we know X79 chipset is $30 more expensive than X58. 4 sticks of mem can be had cheap, and we know cpu pricing. The variable will be mobo. I can't see a quad channel mobo coming in under $150, and can easily see $300+ premiums for boards like this.

Crap Daddy · Oct 10, 2011, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mussels

why is no one else asking how this has "4 channel" ram with 6 slots?

is it quad channel? dual? triple? IT HURTS MY MIND

Ha, ha. So very true. The slots are sooo black that we couldn't see properly how many there are.

SteelSix · Oct 10, 2011, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mussels

why is no one else asking how this has "4 channel" ram with 6 slots?

is it quad channel? dual? triple? IT HURTS MY MIND

Damn you beat me to it. I just noticed it!

Mescalamba · Oct 10, 2011, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by puma99dk|

just me or does AsRock have a fetish of putting atleast one PCI slot on every new motherboard they make? O.o

Well, for long time I had excellent PCI sound card and it would be bad to have non-PCI motherboard. Not mentioning theres still couple of manufacturers that havent notice that PCIe exist.

Tho I sold that soundcard and next from same manufacturer was PCIe, so Im safe. Still nothing bad about backward compatibility.

Btw. my mobo has PCI, IDE and Floppy! .. and its X58.

Mescalamba · Oct 10, 2011, 12:28 PM

Its quad, but you can run it in triple too. Tho 8 slots would be better, but I think it will need separate power for ram only. I remember that runing 6 slots on X58 was bit of issue, especially if you wanted them to run fast, quite a big jumps in voltage needed.

entropy13 · Oct 10, 2011, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mussels

why is no one else asking how this has "4 channel" ram with 6 slots?

is it quad channel? dual? triple? IT HURTS MY MIND

It's quad channel for 4 of the 6 slots (0, 2, 3, 5). Populate those slots for quad-channel. Otherwise, it's not quad-channel. I guess it would be dual channel if only (0, 2) or (3, 5) are populated. Correct me if I'm wrong though, but if you fill all six slots it would be single-channel for (1, 4) and quad-channel for the rest? Or 2x single channel for 1 and 4 each then 2x dual-channel for (0, 2) and (3, 5)? Are those possible?

LAN_deRf_HA · Oct 10, 2011, 12:55 PM

It's explained in the first post... Just seems dumb. Do 8 slots or 4 like everyone else. Don't put that sort of gimmick on your top end board.

Jstn7477 · Oct 10, 2011, 01:00 PM

I agree with having 4 or 8 slots vs. 6. ASRock likes making a lot of standard features sound like they are exclusive to their boards, like "Instant Boot" on my A770DE+ (which is now dying/dead after 4 months) which is really just Standby.

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SteelSix Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Atlanta, USA Posts: 225 (0.13/day) Thanks: 4 Thanked 49 Times in 30 Posts	I choose ASRock to design the hull of our first interstellar warship. The power system's heatsink arrary is the most elaborate I've seen. Look at the total surface area. Such a remarkable display of passive cooling design; why active PCH cooling? A step backwards IMO. Looks like a quality fan though; hopefully it's low RPM. We don't want to hear that fan ASRock..

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Mescalamba Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 196 (0.14/day) Thanks: 4 Thanked 16 Times in 14 Posts	Its quad, but you can run it in triple too. Tho 8 slots would be better, but I think it will need separate power for ram only. I remember that runing 6 slots on X58 was bit of issue, especially if you wanted them to run fast, quite a big jumps in voltage needed.

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Jstn7477 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Sarasota, Florida, USA Posts: 3,248 (2.34/day) Thanks: 397 Thanked 1,249 Times in 840 Posts System Specs	I agree with having 4 or 8 slots vs. 6. ASRock likes making a lot of standard features sound like they are exclusive to their boards, like "Instant Boot" on my A770DE+ (which is now dying/dead after 4 months) which is really just Standby. __________________ Intel Crunchers (34 threads): 4770K 4.3G (7t), 2x 3770K 4.3G (14t), 2600K 4G (7t), X3210 (3t), P-M 735A, P4 HT 3G AMD Crunchers (12 cores):1100T 3.6G (3t), 1045T 3.4G (2t), X4 640 3.2G, X2 4200+, T64 ML-37 AMD Folders (6272 GCN cores): 2x 7950 1125/1475, 7970 1150/1650, 7770 1100/1200 NV Folders (2336 GF10x + 1344 GK104 cores):GTX 470 & 465 720/1715, 4x 460 768MB 825/2000, GTS 450, 660Ti 1228/6000 HEATWARE

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Processor:	Intel Core i7-4770K 4.3GHz/4.3GHz uncore 1.18v \| AMD PII Mobile X4 X920 @ 2.3GHz\|AMD E-350 APU
Motherboard:	ASRock Z87 Extreme6 \| NWQAE S1G4 (880G/SB850) \| Gigabyte E350N-USB3
Cooling:	Cooler Master TPC-812, 2x Cougar CF-V12HB + 5 Rosewill RFA-120-RL
Memory:	G.Skill RJ-X 16GB DDR3-2133 CL11 \| Stock 2*2GB DDR3-1066 CL7 \| 4GB DDR3-1333
Video Card:	MSI ref. HD 7970 1150/1650 w/ GB Windforce 3 cooler swap \| ATI MR 5650 1GB DDR3 @ 550/900 \| 6310 IGP
Hard Disk:	Mushkin Chronos 240GB + Seagate Green 2TB \| WD Scorpio Black 750GB \| Samsung F1 1TB
Optical Drive:	ASUS 24x SATA \| Sony Optiarc AD-7703S 8x Labelflash \| Samsung Writemaster 22x SATA
CRT/LCD Model:	ASUS VG236HE 23" 120Hz 1080p \| 16.0" 1366*768 LED laptop glossy LCD \| Samsung 940BW
Case:	NZXT Source 210 \| Toshiba A665D \| Rosewill MI-01-BK ITX "shoebox"
Sound Card:	Realtek ALC1150 \| Realtek ALC269 with harman/kardon speakers \| Realtek ALC892
PSU:	Rosewill CAPSTONE 550w (80Plus Gold) \| 75W 19.5v brick \| Seasonic 350w ITX
Software:	Windows 7 Pro x64 + Ubuntu 13.04 \| Windows 8 Pro x64 (laptop)
Benchmarks:	120FPS in the games I play? :P

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