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ASRock Penryn1600SLI-110dB NVIDIA 650i chipset mainboard review - Introduction
Bluetooth 1 Feb 2008

Introduction

 

ASRock surprises us again with the introduction of yet another product. This time round, they used the NF650i + NF430 chipset and made it to work with all series of CPUs including the upcoming Intel QX9770 Core 2 Extreme Quad Core processor running 1600FSB.

The model name of this new board is Penryn1600SLI-110dB. It supports the 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 processors.

Based on the NVIDIA® 650iSLI (C55) + NVIDIA® nForce 430 Chipsets, it supports all series of Intel LGA775 processors including the  FSB1600/1333MHz CPUs. The board also features a all Solid Capacitor design for better stability and overclockability.

The board supports supports Dual Channel DDR2 800/667/533 x 4 DIMM slots, maximum capacity up to 8GB. As it comes with 3 full length PCIe x16 slots, this board supports  NVIDIA® SLI™ using the two yellow slots, running at Dual 8x (SLI), otherwise a single card should be fitted into the white slot which operates at PCIe x16. Thus, you save the trouble meddling with peddle cards switching between SLI and non SLI mode. The bundle comes with a free SLI connector.

Other than that, the board has a complete feature set, it includes as Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s, 2 x IEEE1394 ports (one port on back panel, one header on board). In terms of expansion, it has 4 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD and RAID 5) and NCQ functions. It also has a 1 x WiFi/E header.

In terms of audio, it has 7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio with Content Protection, supports DAC with 110dB dynamic range (ALC890 Audio Codec).

For overclockers, there is the ASRock OC Tuner utility to o/c it within Windows. The BIOS also has options for voltage and fsb adjustments.

Accessories :
Free Bundle: ASRock SLI Bridge
ASRock WiFi_SPDIF I/O Plus : 1 x Coaxial SPDIF Out Port, 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port, 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED, 1 x IEEE 1394 Port





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