14 DAY TRIAL // Not wanting to leave the Intel X79 gaming motherboard market entirely to Asus and Gigabyte, ASRock is developing a new Fatal1ty-series board for Intel’s LGA 2011 processors which is expected to come out in the next few weeks.
The motherboard in question is called the ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional and was developed in order to include features that will appeal to gaming fans all over, such as a Fatal1ty mouse port and support for 4-way CrossFireX and SLI setups.
As it’s the case with most other motherboards based on the Intel X79 chipset, ASRock’s Fatal1ty model also comes equipped with four DIMM sockets supporting quad-channel memory with speeds up to DDR3-2400.
Right to the left of the DIMM slots, users will find no less than four properly spaced PCI Express x16 slots, which are accompanied by two 32-bit PCI slots and by a single PCIe x1 slot.
As far as storage is concerned, ASRock decided to provide its customers with a total of 10 SATA ports, six of these running at 6Gbps speeds while the remaining four are SATA 3Gbps, according to TechPowerUp.
The rest of the board layout is not too surprising for a flagship product and it carries the usual Power and Reset on-board buttons as well as a debug LCD and an additional MOLEX power plug for multi-GPU setups.
Moving to the back of ASRock's creation, users get the usual assortment of ports and connectors, including four USB 3.0 ports, 7.1-channel audio with both optical and coaxial S/PDIF out and a Clear CMOS button.
Two additional USB 3.0 ports are available through an on-board header placed between the seventh SATA 3Gbps port and the 24-pin ATX power connector.
No information regarding the price of the ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional is available, but the motherboard is expected to come out in November of this year.
