Wasn't ASRock's boards for the entry market ? Well, that doesn't seem so from 2008. ASRock is making in roads to mid range boards. As you can see, this new board 4Core1600P35-Wifi+ is based on the Intel P35 + ICH 9R chipsets. The board supports all LGA 775 for Intel® CoreTM 2 Extreme / CoreTM 2 Quad / CoreTM 2 Duo / Pentium® Dual Core / Celeron®, supporting Penryn Quad Core Yorkfield and Dual Core Wolfdale processors. The board also incorporates a all solid capacitor design.

For those who can't afford the DDR3 modules, you can use DDR2 with this board and upgrade to DDR3 in the future. The board supports Dual Channel DDR3 1333/1066/800 (2 x DIMM slots) with max. capacity up to 4GB and Dual Channel DDR2 1066/800/667 (4 x DIMM slots) with max. capacity up to 8GB.

In terms of expansion, this board supports ATI CrossFireTM with 1 x PCI Express x16 slot and additional AGI Express slot to adopt 2nd PCI Express x16 VGA card, and other PCI Express x4, x2, x1 interface cards. The board also comes with PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s, 2 x IEEE1394 ports (one port on back panel, one header on board).

The board also has 6 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel® Matrix Storage), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions with 1 x eSerial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s connector (shared with 1 SATAII port). There is also a 1 x WiFi header and 7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio with Content Protection, supports DAC with 110dB dynamic range (ALC890 Audio Codec), DTS (Digital Theater Systems) support. The back panel has 2 x RJ-45 LAN Port LED, 1 x eSATAII port, 1 x IEEE 1394 ports, 4 ready-to-use USB ports.

Other features include support of I. O. T. (Intelligent Overclocking Technology), ASRock OC Tuner. The package includes free Bundle: 1 x ASRock WiFi-802.11g Module and 1 x Antenna

The board also is Windows® VistaTM Premium 2007 Logo Ready.

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