ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 First Mobo to Rock PCI-E 3.0 Ports
ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 First Mobo to Rock PCI-E 3.0 Ports
Posted 06/28/2011 at 10:52am
| by Paul Lilly
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If you're familiar with the ASRock brand, you probably recognize it as a builder of budget motherboards. ASRock has been known to appeal to enthusiasts with next generation and/or unique design decisions, like the 939Dual-SATA2 that combined both an AGP port and PCI-Express ports on the same board so users could have a GPU upgrade path to PCI-E without overhauling their foundation. ASRock's latest concoction is the Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 motherboard, the first ever to implement PCI-E 3.0 ports.
The Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen 3 rocks two PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots and one PCI-E 2.0 slot. It supports Nvdia Quad SLI and AMD 3-Way CrossFireX. The PCI-E 3.0 interface provides twice the bandwidth of PCI-E 2.0 (1GB/s versus 500MB/s).
Other features include six SATA 6Gbps ports, ten SATA 3Gbps ports, dual GbE LAN, 7.1 channel audio, eSATA, dual HDMI, four USB 3.0 ports, debug LED, Intel Smart Response Technology, and a Fatal1ty USB Mouse Port (allows polling rate adjustment from 125Hz to 1000Hz).
No word on price or availability.
Image Credit: ASRock
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avenger48
June 28, 2011 at 1:09pm
Ok, I'll bite...Where the hell are they getting all that bandwidth from? Z68 only has enough bandwidth to feed half of one PCIe 3.0 x16 port.
Fenthic
June 30, 2011 at 5:13pm
According to the linked article the board uses a secondary chip (PLX PEX8608) to add more PCI-E Lanes. However according to PLX's own website that particular chip is only PCI-E 2.0 Compliant.
chart2006
June 28, 2011 at 4:38pm
Agreed! Am I waiting for PCIe 3.0? Yes, but does it make sense to place it on a board which can't possibly support even close to its full potential? No! I suppose the benefit is its backwards compatibility with 2.0 and there have been instances where SSD based PCIe 2.0 cards have seen some impressive performance gains in a 3.0 slot. I still don't think it's worth it though.
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June 28, 2011 at 11:46am
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