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Review Conclusion
of ASRock Penryn1600SLI-110dB
NVIDIA 650i chipset mainboard review Conclusion
ASRock's entry into the mid range market take the market by storm. This new board based on an aging chipset does give us a surprise in it's performance and ability to support the newer processors out there. In terms of features, 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. Performance wise, this board wins some and lose some when compared to the Gigabyte P35T-DQ6 mainboard paired up with 2GB of DDR3-1066 modules. The graphics performance improved further when we pair up another 9600GT to the board for SLI. In terms of overclocking, the BIOS comes pretty complete with large range of FSB and voltage options available. You can see the BIOS options here. In our o/c test, we used a E6550 processor that clocks at 7x333 and o/c it by lowering the multiplier to 6x and increase the cpu clk to 480MHz. The memory is set to DDR2-533 so that it won't be the bottleneck in our o/c test. Voltages are also increased to ensure more stability. Vcore is set to 1.40v, Vdimm to 2.2v, Vtt to 1.375v, Chipset voltage to 1.516v. We also used the OC tuner and managed to get it up to 496x6. See diagram below.
During our test, we find that the north bridge heatsink is exceptionaly hot. We have enquired about this and the official reply was that the chipset is able to withstand high temperatures. I would recommend putting a small fan on it to cool it down. When running in SLI mode, two 9600GT cards are very close to each other, this result in air circulation problem. The cards gets very hot because of each card takes up a 2 slot space. In conclusion, ASRock has impressed me with this new product. The specifications is comparable to boards from the 1st tier manufacturers. If you are looking for a LGA775 board that support the Wolfdale/Yorkfield processors and wants SLI performance, this board is definitely worth considering as it will be priced very competitively against the new boards out there.
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Ratings Here are my ratings out of 10.
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