ASRock PCI Express 3.0

ASRock has decided to invest all of the PCI Express 3.0, the new standard serial port can achieve a bandwidth of 32 Gbps. The new motherboards for Intel processors based on Intel P67 Express and Express Z68, support the current CPU chipmaker and the future of Santa Clara to 22 nanometers, more compatible with the LGA 1155.

The names are Extreme7 Gen3 Z68, Z68 FATAL1TY Professional Gen3, Extreme4 Gen3 Z68, Z68 and P67 Extreme3 ??Gen3 Gen3 Extreme4. Even if everyone is given the suffix Gen3, in fact, only three of them are new models.

Motherboards Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Gen3 Extreme4 and P67 are indeed updated versions of previous models, to which was added support for PCI Express 3.0, plus a new color of the PCB. The new Z68 FATAL1TY Professional Gen3 instead, as its name implies, is a suitable solution to gamers with two PCI Express 3.0 x16, one PCI Express 2.0, voltage regulator 18 steps, six SATA 6 Gbps ports, two SATA II, six USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, two HDMI, DVI and VGA outputs, two Firewire, two Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 channel HD audio.

Specifications very similar to the Z68 Extreme3 ??Gen3 that, compared to the card level, it loses power six stages and one PCI Express 3.0, but instead of HDMI, DisplayPort output ASRock has chosen. In the other lower-end models reduces the number of SATA and USB ports, but is kept double-slot PCI Express 3.0 to AMD’s CrossFireX configurations, and NVIDIA SLI.

Recall that to exploit the maximum speed of PCI Express 3.0, you must install the CPU Ivy Bridge that hit the market in 2012. At the moment the prices are not known but are presumed to be fairly high even though ASRock is known for its excellent price / performance.