ASRock X58 SuperComputer 3 way SLI and Quad CrossFire setup

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ASRock launches X58 SuperComputer Intel X58 chipset mainboard supporting Core i7 processors Link
Posted on 01/10/2009 @ 12:39 PM


ASROCK X58 SuperComputer

• Intel® Socket 1366 Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition / Core™ i7 Processor Supports Intel® Dynamic Speed Technology
• System Bus up to 6400 MT/s; Intel® QuickPath Interconnect
• ASRock DuraCap (2.5 x longer life time), 100% Japan-made high-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors
• Intel® X58 + ICH10R Chipsets
• Supports Triple Channel DDR3 2000(OC)/1866(OC)/1600(OC)/1333(OC)/1066 (6 x DIMM slots), non-ECC, un-buffered memory, Max. capacity up to 24GB
• Supports DDR3 ECC, buffered memory with Intel® Workstation 1S Xeon® processors 3500 series
• Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)
• 4 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (blue @ x8 / x16 mode, orange @ x8 / N/A mode) (Double-wide slot spacing between each PCI-E slot)

• Supports ATI™ CrossFireX™, Quad CrossFireX™
• Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLI™, 3-Way SLI™ and SLI™
• Supports NVIDIA® Tesla Personal Supercomputer with three Tesla and one Quadro graphics cards
• Dual GLAN with Teaming function : 2 x PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
• 6 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID10, RAID 5 and Intel® Matrix Storage), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions * 2 SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors can be used as eSATAII connectors
• Supports 2 x IEEE1394 ports (one port on back panel, one header on board)
• Supports ASRock Instant Boot
• Supports Smart BIOS, ASRock OC Tuner, Intelligent Energy Saver
• 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
• Windows® Vista™ Premium 2008 Logo Ready
• Free Bundle: 2 x ASRock XFire_Bridge_3S Cards, 1 x ASRock SLI Bridge, 1 x ASRock SLI_Bridge_3S Card, 1 x ASRock 3-Way SLI Bridge Card
• I/O Panel : 1 x Coaxial SPDIF Out Port, 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port, 7 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports (1 USB 2.0 port shared with eSATAII port), 2 x RJ-45 LAN Ports with LED, 1 x IEEE 1394 Port

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Exclusive ASRock X58 SuperComputer 3 way SLI and Quad CrossFire setup The ASRock X58 SuperComputer is the highest end mainboard from ASRock supporting the Intel Core i7 processor. Not only does it support ATi CrossFire X, it also works with 3 way SLI. Below are pictures of the mainboard pairing up with 4 x ATI 4850 for CrossFire and 3 x NVIDIA GTX 260 in 3 way SLI mode.





Specs of the ASRock X58 SuperComputer

CPU - Intel® Socket 1366 Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition / Core™ i7 Processor Supports Intel® Dynamic Speed Technology
- System Bus up to 6400 MT/s; Intel® QuickPath Interconnect
- Supports Hyper-Threading Technology
- Supports Untied Overclocking Technology
- Supports EM64T CPU
Chipset - Northbridge: Intel® X58
- Southbridge: Intel® ICH10R
Memory - Triple Channel DDR3 memory technology
- 6 x DDR3 DIMM slots
- Supports DDR3 2000(OC)/1866(OC)/1600(OC)/1333(OC)/1066 non-ECC, un-buffered memory
- Supports DDR3 ECC, buffered memory with Intel® Workstation 1S Xeon® processors 3500 series
- Max. capacity of system memory: 24GB
- Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)

[sifis_samos]

Very nice setup indeed!..

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Using Gigabyte'cards,lol:

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why is it funny to use gigabyte cards?

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ASRock X58 SuperComputer pictures

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any ideas about price or availability?

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After Chinese New YR

[trodas]

Is not that the first case when ASRock board come with 8 phase PWM? :)
Or I miss something?
Anyway, looking pretty nicely. Just let's hope they did not HAVE to use 8 phases of PWM for using sup-par components. Usually this is the case with Asus and ASRock boards with many PWM phases. Intel with classic elyte caps on input and Nichicon LE caps on output actually managed far better results in just 4 phases :) Quality counts.

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