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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