ASRock turning dial to 11 with X79 Extreme11 motherboard

[OS-Wiz]

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a total of five PCIe x16 slots which offer support for 4-way video card
setups (SLI and CrossFireX) along with two legacy PCI slots.

The board comes with two GEN3 PLX 8747 chips allowing for four way setups to
run at x16 / x16 / x16 / x16 along with an LSI SAS2308 chip offering us eight
SAS ports or eight SATA3 ports which are only part of the 14 total SATA ports on
offer with 10 of them being SATA3.

Audio is provided by the Creative Core3D chip

ASRock turn dial to 11 with X79 Extreme11 motherboard :: TweakTown USA Edition

[Bad_Machine]

Beautiful mobo! ASRock was my initial choice when I was spec'ing my X79 system - in the end I went for an Asus because it offers digital PWM for both CPU and RAM (ASRock only does digital PWM on CPU). Still, there's no denying that this ASRock mobo is super - as long as one has the financial strength to drop-in four graphics cards, SSD arrays etc.

[groberts101]

Holy crap!.. that's a nice board. I'm wondering about the LSI SAS2308 chips available throughput. Imagine some sata fanout cables running oodles of HDD storage from each port!

Would also be curious to see what type of caching functionality they may have leveraged as well. I'll have to look around to see what other raidcards using that chip are capable of to fill in the blanks, I guess.

Looks promising and Intel better watch out if they want to keep SSD's connected to their port limited sata3 chips.

EDIT.. that looks to be a very promising chip. Conforms to PCI-E 3.0 interface standards too.
http://www.lsi.com/products/storagec...SISAS2308.aspx

[Zaxx]

And it gets better...

"The LGA2011 socket is powered by a 16+2 phase DigiPower VRM, which draws power from two 8-pin EPS connectors. It is wired to eight DDR3 DIMM slots, supporting up to 64 GB of quad-channel DDR3 memory with speeds of over DDR3-2400 MHz by overclocking. The memory areas are powered by 4+4 phase VRM. Apart from the 24-pin ATX connector, and the two EPS connectors, the board also draws power from two 4-pin Molex connectors. The board makes use of Japanese-made solid-state capacitors almost throughout.

Moving on, the sound subsystem on the X79 Extreme11 is care of Creative Sound Core3D audio processor, with 8 channels output, and support for THX TruStudio Pro. There are two gigabit Ethernet interfaces, driven by Broadcom-made controllers. There are a total of eight USB 3.0 ports (four on the rear-panel, four via headers). A variety of ASRock-exclusive features are found, including UEFI BIOS with System Browser, XFastLAN, XFastUSB. The heatsinks have not taken shape, but the one over the PCH is sure to feature a fan."



ASRock Unveils Jaw-Dropping X79 Extreme11 Motherboard | techPowerUp

This thing is a damn BEAST! I think there's gonna be some record breaking once this thing launches. Add a LN cooled OC'd i7/3960X, 4 x 7870's and a handful of SSDs and start knockin 'em down.

[FiftyOne]

Agree that this 'thing' will be out of control insane.

Not sure exactly why one would need 14 sata ports??? I assume a rig built on this would be liquid cooled, therefore space would be at a premium. Also, for a high performance rig, I assume most people would put any storage drives in a server or NAS (Thats how I'd deal with it, at least)

[renosablast]

Man that thing is beautiful enough to frame and hang on the wall as art!

[Computurd]

that is probabaly the single sexiest motherboard i have ever seen. I am going to literally BEG ON MY HANDS AND KNEES FOR ONE to review.

[doorules]

Got to figure there will be a stampede from other OEM's to get their own fully supported x79 mobo's to market.

This is what the specs were supposed to be before Intel nerfed them.

[Zaxx]

Heh...anyone who wants to properly review this thing is gonna have to have access to a small fortune worth of accompanying hardware. A 3960X would be a must (preferably water cooled)...plus at least 16 to 32GB GB of fast ram, at least a 1KW PSU, 4 high end gfx cards and a truck load of SSDs...and about a week to kill to do it right. All I can say is I wish it were me. There is only one feasible way this mobo could be bested...that would be to add another 2011 socket.

[Hameister]

Now THIS is a motherboard Wiz, not like that wussy Asus board you threaded about last week!

This is the kind of board I'll be looking for when IB-E is released, yes!