ASRock has been releasing so many high end boards lately. Today, we take a look at a more mainstream product, the ASRock P43RTwins-WiFi based on Intel P43 chipset+ICH10R.

So, what is the difference between a P45 and P43 chipset. Basically, the P45 supports Dual PCIe 2.0 x8 for CrossFire if you are not for CrossFire, the P43 should sufficient as it only has a single PCIe 2.0 x16 slot.

The chipset supports all series of LGA 775 for Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® Dual Core / Celeron®, supporting Penryn Quad Core Yorkfield and Dual Core Wolfdale  FSB1600/1333/1066/800MHz CPUs. This board also supports a dual memory architecture - Dual Channel DDR3 1333/1066 (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

Expansion wise it comes with 6 x SATAII 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 and  1 x eSATAII 3.0 Gb/s connector.

THe board supports a PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s and 2 x IEEE1394 ports (one port on back panel, one header on board). Audio is a 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).

The on board WiFi/E header connects to ASRock WiFi-802.11g Module  for WiFI/AP, making this board part of a wireless LAN network.

For overclockers, the board's BIOS also support I.O.T, allowing you to overclock with ease. There are also a large amt. of voltage options and large range of Frequencies (200 ~ 800) etc for you to overclock. If it is not enough, you can use the ASRock OC tuner to achieve a higher overclock within Windows.

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