Late last year, Intel launched their latest LGA1366 processors. With the advance of technology, the new processor computes faster than it's previous generation, the LGA775 Core 2 Quad series of processors.

As it is a brand new processor and it has a total different pinning compared to the previous, ASRock X58 SuperComputer releases it's first Intel X58 based mainboard supporting the Intel Core i7 920, 940, 965 processors and system bus up to 6400MT/s and Intel QuickPath Interconnect.

Through innovative design, the ASRock X58 SuperComputer supports a lot more, sometimes even better designed than expensive 1st tier boards.  For better stability, it uses 100% Japanese made high quality conductive polymer capacitors.  Memory wise, it 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 and DDR3 ECC, buffered memory with Intel^® Workstation 1S Xeon^® processors 3500 series, XMP is also supported.

One of the most important design of X58 board is it's PCIe slots. Some boards have the slots squeezed without considering the air flow and the length cards blocking the Front panel connectors or SATA ports. On ASRock X58 SuperComputer it has 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). Thus you can fit in 2 slot design graphics cards on all slots.

With the Intel X58 chipset, this board supports multi GPU designs, namely ATi CrossFire X and NVIDIA SLI. It can support ATI™ CrossFireX™ up to 4 cards Quad CrossFireX™ and NVIDIA^® Quad SLI™, 3-Way SLI™ and SLI™. It also support NVIDIA^® Tesla Personal Supercomputer with three Tesla and one Quadro graphics cards.

Some other features on this board include Dual GLan with Teaming. There are also 6 SATA II ports supporting RAID 0,1,10,5 by ICH10R with NCQ, AHCI and hotplug. There are 2 SATA II ports that can be used for eSATA connectors. In additon, 1394 is supported (one port on back panel, one header on board).

Audio on board is a Realtek 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.

This board is environment friendly as it supports the Intelligent energy saver, helping you to save more energy. Other features on board include ASRock instant boot, OC tuner for overclocking.

The package itself is also comes with the necessary connectors. They are 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.

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