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ASRock
Penryn1600SLI-110dB NVIDIA 650i chipset mainboard review - Introduction
Introduction
ASRock surprises us again with the introduction of yet another product. This
time round, they used the NF650i + NF430 chipset and made it to work with all
series of CPUs including the upcoming
Intel QX9770 Core 2
Extreme Quad Core processor running 1600FSB.
The model name of this new board is Penryn1600SLI-110dB. It supports the LGA 775
for Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® Dual Core /
Celeron®, supporting Penryn Quad Core Yorkfield and Dual Core Wolfdale
processors.
Based on the NVIDIA® 650iSLI (C55) + NVIDIA® nForce 430 Chipsets, it supports
all series of Intel LGA775 processors including the FSB1600/1333MHz CPUs.
The board also features a all Solid Capacitor design for better stability and
overclockability.
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.
In terms of audio, it has 7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio with
Content Protection, supports DAC with 110dB dynamic range (ALC890 Audio Codec).
For overclockers, there is the ASRock OC Tuner utility to o/c it within Windows.
The BIOS also has options for voltage and fsb adjustments.
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