ASRock Shows Off Three Motherboards for Enthusiasts

[drwho1]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]There's a huge difference between a controller and a port and most of the ports on that X79 board, if not all of them, are SAS, not SATA.[/citation]


http://www.adaptec.com/nr/rdonlyres/b2b7fea9-f59b-46eb-b676-dd0892653f7c/0/4393_satavalue_13.pdf

bottom line: that's a whole bunch of hard drives that can be attached directly to the motherboard.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]drwho1[/nom]http://www.adaptec.com/nr/rdonlyre [...] lue_13.pdfbottom line: that's a whole bunch of hard drives that can be attached directly to the motherboard.[/citation]

True, but what I said is also true.

 

[Pyree]

[citation][nom]HappyMe[/nom]Stupid nerds[/citation]
Not so stupid when I ban you hijoe.

 

[Pyree]

Changed to this below:



That would fix it, if you want to.

Ok, but sadly, it only works on the forum here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/15981-55-asrock-shows-motherboards-enthusiasts#t329679

But not out on the article for public to read.

 

[hetneo]

The x79 extreme 11 would be my dream come true if 4th slot was full 16x, even if it would drop to 8x or 4x when 2nd or 3rd are used. It's much better to have two empty slots between GPUs in multi GPU setup than one.[citation][nom]wiyosaya[/nom]The x79 extreme 11 seems a bit extreme and maybe aimed at the inexperienced who actually thinks they are going to fit 7 graphics cards or teslas on this board. If the board had a larger footprint, or if all the graphics cards were water-cooled and the card + water cooler take only one slot each, maybe, but could you even get a power supply that would supply enough power for 7 high-end GPUs?[/citation]
It has only 5 PEG slots and only 4 of them are 16x, one is 8x. Looks like you are the inexperienced here. You can put 2 power supplies one for power through PEG slots and other components and 2nd one for aux PEG connectors.
[citation][nom]K2N hater[/nom]The fact it supports 4-way SLI has no relation to the number of slots. Most probably it does x16 if up to 3 add-in cards are detected and x8 if 4 or more. As evil as marketing goes a pair of "open" x1 slots also allow quad CF and quad SLI.[/citation]
Article explicitly says it supports quad SLI or CF in 16x/16x/16x/16x PCIe 3.0 mode.
[citation][nom]TheBigTroll[/nom]isnt 16x quadfire or quad sli going to be bottlenecked by the sandy-bridge e chips?[/citation]
Yes if you are stupid enough to run it on single 1080 screen. If you got with three 30 inch screens such as Dell U3011 is then no, SB-E will manage to crunch enough wire-frames for GPUs to be busy[citation][nom]11796pcs[/nom]I'm not familiar with Teaming, could someone explain?[/citation]
Teaming is in essence very similar to SLI and CF multi GPU setups. It is technology for using multiple network interfaces (and/or channels) teamed together for higher bandwidth, load balancing, higher fault tolerance and live switching from one to other in case of failure of one of them. It is very common on enterprise servers, and with gaming it has potential to decrease ping, well portion of ping that is generated by client's network card.

 

[dreadllokz]

"can run 4-way SLI or CrossFireX in x16/x16/x16/x16"
Is it right? 0o OMG if so! First time we will see ZERO bottleneck on pciE-lanes. Of course the bottleneck at some high-end models that use x16/x8/x8/x8 aren't most times even noticiable, but still, neat!

 

[Guest]

The real question is if anybody knows when the Extreme11 board is going to be available (if ever)?

 

[Guest]

and the prices are?

 

[Guest]

which would be better the extreme 11 or oc formula im looking to do heavy gaming and i want to overclock as well, my setup will be with a i7 3770 k and a gtx 670

 

[TheBigTroll]

which would be better the extreme 11 or oc formula im looking to do heavy gaming and i want to overclock as well, my setup will be with a i7 3770 k and a gtx 670

please make a new thread.

as for as i would say, id get a 7970 and a i5 3570k instead of a 670 and a i7

the i5 performs the same as the i7 in games
the 7970 performs better from the new drivers