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ASRock X79 Extreme7 LGA 2011 Motherboard Pictured in Full

ASRock is preparing a new flagship motherboard for the launch of Intel's Sandy Bridge-E processors, the X79 Extreme7, which was just pictured in full by a Chinese website who has received a series of images with the final revision of this board.The most striking feature about the Extreme7 is the inclusion of six...

10 October 2011
03:04 GMT

Leak Reveals Budget-Unfriendly ASRock X79 Extreme7

The motherboard market is bound to see a new wave of product launches as soon as Intel brings out the LGA 2011 socket, so ASRock is, naturally, getting ready to put on as good a showing as possible, as enforces by a recent leak. This once, it is ASRock that has caught the eye of market watchers, even if it wasn&#...

30 September 2011
02:35 GMT

ASRock Also Outs AM3+ Motherboards for AMD FX-Series CPUs

ASRock already sells quite a few AM3+ solutions for AMD's upcoming FX-Series processors, but recently the company expanded its portfolio with two new motherboards compatible with desktop Bulldozer chips, the 990FX Extreme3 and the Extreme3.Both of these solutions are pretty well equipped and come with a black PC...

29 September 2011
07:54 GMT

ASRock Vision 3D HTPC Preparing for Launch

HTPCs are usually unassuming personal computers, but the one invented by ASRock is no doubt going to break through some expectations, what with the sort of high-end performance it can achieve under certain circumstances. Home-theater personal computers are the sort of PC that users with no inclination towards gam...

7 September 2011
05:54 GMT

Three ASRock FM1 Motherboards Formalized

ASRock decided it was time for some more FM1 motherboards to enter the consumer space, even though it already has a fairly extensive portfolio of such things, as well as Intel platforms.Many FM1 motherboards have made their way to stores over the past few months, in order to offer new AMD CPUs the feature set they n...

24 August 2011
09:16 GMT

ASRock's Mini-ITX Z68M-ITX/HT Motherboard Reaches Retail

Announced at the end of July, ASRock's mini-ITX Z68M-ITX/HT motherboard for HTPC systems has recently started selling in Japan for the equivalent of $152 US, worldwide availability being expected shortly. This is only the third mini-ITX Intel Z68 motherboard to make its appearance in the retail market, the ot...

5 August 2011
05:40 GMT

ASRock Releases Z68 Fatal1ty Professional Gen 3 Motherboard

Spotted for the first time at the end f June, ASRock has now officially released the Z68 Fatal1ty Professional Gen 3 motherboard, which is one of the first LGA 1155 solution to feature support for the PCI Express 3.0 standard. ASRock's motherboard is built around the Z68 Express chipset and is compatible with...

2 August 2011
05:22 GMT

ASRock Outs Inexpensive Intel Z68 Mini-ITX Motherboard

Consumers interested in building a compact gaming LAN party box or an HTPC system based on Intel's Sandy Bridge processors now have a new motherboard to check out as ASRock has just announced the mini-ITX Z68M-ITX/HT based on the Z68 PCH. This is only the third mini-ITX Intel Z68 motherboard scheduled to make...

26 July 2011
03:59 GMT

ASRock's PCI Express 3.0 Compliant LGA 1155 Motherboards Get Pictured

Last week, ASRock announced that it would soon release a new series of Intel LGA 1155 motherboards with full support for the PCI Express 3.0 standard and now the first high-res pictures of these boards have made their appearance. The new series will include the Z68 Extreme3, Z68 Extreme7, the Fatal1ty Z68 Professi...

21 July 2011
06:11 GMT

ASRock Intros Its First Fatal1ty Motherboard for AMD Bulldozer CPUs

ASRock doesn't seem to care too much about AMD's Bulldozer release date, as it has just announced its first Fatal1ty motherboard based on the 990FX chipset destined to be used together with the upcoming FX-Series processors. The motherboard is dubbed the Fatal1ty 990FX Professional, and, once available, ...

15 July 2011
07:46 GMT

Four More PCI Express 3.0-Equipped ASRock Motherboards Surface

The PCI Express 3.0 specification has now made its way into actual products and it appears that ASRock is especially inclined to support it, seeing as how it already has some siblings for the Fatal1ty Professional Gen 3.Motherboards usually show up in the news automatically, especially now that tablets have been ste...

13 July 2011
10:19 GMT

ASRock PCI Express 3.0 Enabled Z68 Fatal1ty Professional Gen 3 Board Reaches Retail

After being made official at the end of June, the Z68 Fatal1ty Professional Gen 3 motherboard, that includes two PCI Express 3.0 compatible expansion slots, has now started shipping and is already available for purchase in Japan.ASRock's motherbard is built around the Z68 Express chipset and is compatible with a...

11 July 2011
06:08 GMT

ASRock Uses PCI Express 3.0 Slots in Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3

The PCI Express 2.0 interface is common nowadays, but ASRock left the norm when it used the next generation of this interface on its new LGA 1155 motherboard for Intel Sandy Bridge and, eventually, Ivy Bridge CPUs. Ever since the Ivy Bridge platform became a looming certainty, new Intel-based motherboards have ei...

28 June 2011
10:29 GMT

ASRock Also Has an A75 Motherboard for AMD Llano

Advanced Micro Devices has allowed its customers to wait for its chips with integrated graphics for years, but it seems the mainstream batch of APUs will soon debut, something that ASRock knows well, as shown by its motherboard offer.Whenever new central processing units (CPUs) or in this case accelerated processing...

24 June 2011
03:32 GMT

ASRock Officially Intros the 990FX Extreme4 and 970 Extreme4 Motherboards

After both models have been spotted at the Computex 2011 fair which closed its gates just the last week, ASRock went ahead and officially announced the 990FX Extreme4 and 970 Extreme4 AM3+ motherboards for AMD's upcoming Bulldozer CPUs. Both of these models support quad, six and eight-core AMD FX-Series proce...

10 June 2011
10:16 GMT

ASRock Intel X79 Motherboard for Sandy Bridge-E CPUs Pictured

Together with all the other major motherboard makers, ASRock has also showcased, at this year's Computex, an X79 Express-based board that is compatible with Intel's upcoming LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors. The motherboard goes by the name of the X79 Extreme4 and it features a similar design to that o...

31 May 2011
06:11 GMT

ASRock's A75M-ITX AMD Llano Motherboard Gets Pictured

With AMD's Llano launch quickly approaching, more and more details about the motherboards that support these chips start appearing, and ASRock is the first company to present an FM1 board that uses the mini-ITX form factor. ASRock's creation is known as the A75M-ITX and, just as its name implies, it'...

27 May 2011
12:11 GMT

ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Pictured and Detailed

ASRock is just one of the companies that will show off their products at Computex, but it looks like it already assisted to an event, where it put on show a certain mainboard based on Intel's most recent chipset.The past couple of weeks have been rife with sneak peeks and reports about hardware products that wi...

27 May 2011
03:29 GMT

ASRock 990FX Extreme4 AMD Bulldozer Motherboard Gets Pictured

With less than three weeks left until AMD officially introduces the first FX-series processors based on the Bulldozer architecture, more and more hardware makers start announcing their AM3+ motherboards, and ASRock is the latest to join the party with the 990FX Extreme4. As its name implies, this motherboard is ba...

21 May 2011
13:21 GMT

ASRock Preps Mini PCs for Computex

With a certain international electronics show on the way, it would be odd if various hardware maker's didn't already start showing off their upcoming products, and it looks like ASRock is one of those that did.Much like CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and CeBIT, Computex is a gathering that happens once ev...

20 May 2011
07:34 GMT

ASRock A75 Extreme6 AMD Llano Motherboard to Debut at Computex

ASRock has just announced its product lineup for this year Computex fair and one of the most interesting products to make its appearance is the A75 Extreme6 motherboard which is compatible with AMD's upcoming Llano processors. Judging by its name, the A75 Extreme6 seems to be one of ASRock's most advance...

19 May 2011
08:39 GMT

ASRock Prepares Fatal1ty 'Performance' LGA 1155 Motherboard

When it officially announced the Fatal1ty motherboard series at the beginning of the year, ASRock let us know that it plans to release quite a few solutions bearing Johnathan's Wendel nickname, and a recent report has unveiled that the next such board to be introduced is called the ASRock P67 Fatal1ty Performanc...

17 May 2011
04:28 GMT

Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS and ASRock to Sell 400,000 Z68 Mainboards This Month

Whenever a new product is launched, especially one that can be sued in a whole bunch of different devices, in this case desktops, sales will go up if the newcomer has good enough specs, and a report claims to know numbers to that effect.By now, users will have noticed that multiple makers of motherboards have steppe...

11 May 2011
10:00 GMT

ASRock Sells Z68 Motherboards Well Ahead of Time

Even though they weren't supposed to be out for another day, as per rumors, Z68 mainboards appear to have already been unleashed, at least as far as ASRock is concerned, whose website has now been updated.One might say that the Z68 chipset, along with pretty much everything one can expect from a motherboard bas...

10 May 2011
03:19 GMT

ASRock Intros Three Intel Z68 Based LGA 1155 Motherboards

ASRock has just announced its upcoming Intel Z68 motherboard lineup and this includes no less than three new models, the Z68 Extreme4, the Z68 Pro3 and the Z68 Pro3-M, all of them featuring support for the Lucid Virtu and Intel Smart Response technologies as well as an FDI link and Sandy Bridge multiplier adjustment....

28 April 2011
14:21 GMT

ASRock Explains the Differences Between AM3+ and AM3 Sockets

In an effort to promote its AM3+ motherboards over the current AM3 solutions that will support AMD's Bulldozer processors via a BIOS update, ASRock has disclosed the main differences between the two CPU sockets revealing that the former uses wider pin-holes as well as better voltage regulation. According to t...

26 April 2011
09:08 GMT

ASRock Jumps the Gun and Intros the Z68 Extreme4 Motherboard

With still a few more weeks to go until Intel launches the Z68 chipset, ASRock has decided to jump the gun and introduce its new flagship motherboard, the Z68 Extreme4, making it the first company to officially release a Z68-based board for Sandy Bridge processors.As the most advanced motherboard model in ASRock'...

22 April 2011
02:42 GMT

ASRock AM3+ Bulldozer Motherboard Gets Listed in Japan

By now, we all know that various motherboard makers have already started manufacturing AM3+ Bulldozer compatible boards, that are driven by the current AMD 800-series chipsets, and one such solution built by ASRock has been spotted in Japanese store where it was listed at $123 USD. The news is hardly surprising co...

11 March 2011
16:01 GMT

ECS and ASRock Both Suffer from Badly Falling Revenues in February

The problem that plagued all motherboards and notebooks based on Intel's original Cougar Point 6-Series chipset definitely had repercussions, as all motherboard makers, like ASRock and EMC in this case, suffered financial losses.The first quarter of any year, and the month of February in particular, usually pos...

11 March 2011
06:41 GMT

ASRock Showcases Intel Z68 LGA 1155 Motherboard at CeBIT 2011

By now, almost all the major motherboard manufacturers have showcased their Intel Z68 powered solutions at the CeBIT 2011 fair, so ASRock couldn't miss this opportunity to present to the world its upcoming Z68 Extreme4 board. Just as Asus and MSI did with their Z68 boards, ASRock has also decided to reuse one...

2 March 2011
08:29 GMT

ASRock Intros New HTPC Systems at CeBIT 2011

Intel's introduction of the Sandy Bridge processor architecture as well as the recently launched mobile graphics cards have enabled manufacturers to build even smaller HTPC systems, and ASRock has just showcased such a product line at the CeBIT 2011 fair, that takes place right now in Hannover, Germany. The ...

1 March 2011
09:19 GMT

ASRock Extends Warranty of Defective Intel 6-Series Mainboards

It appears that, like so many others of Intel's manufacturing partners, ASRock has finally decided what it will do about all the faulty motherboards powered by the 6-Series Cougar point chipset.By now, most consumers will already be up to speed with all the trouble surrounding the Intel 6-Series chipset.Back at...

24 February 2011
08:17 GMT

ASRock Claims First AM3+ Mainboard that Supports AMD Zambezi Chips

While the Mobile World Congress expo is still foremost in peoples' minds right now, there are still those that have no trouble releasing PC hardware, like ASRock, who claims to have created the first Zambezi-ready AM3+ mainboard.Some users may have already heard about the Fusion Black processors from Advanced M...

14 February 2011
08:17 GMT

January Brings About Mixed Financial Results for ASRock and Pegatron

It seems that yet another pair of companies have supplied the web with some information on their January performance, and ASRock and Pegatron went through significantly different experiences.As end-users know, the first quarter of any year is generally seen as the slow season, in terms of sales.Obviously, this is be...

12 February 2011
06:01 GMT

ASRock Speeds Up USB 3.0 Transfer Speed with XFast Utility

Although the SuperSpeed 3.0 standard brought file transfer speeds to an impressive level, there are those who still want more from their external storage devices, so ASRock developed a nifty little software utility which is able to speed up USB 3.0 as well as USB 2.0 drives, dubbed XFast. The tool comes bundled to...

11 February 2011
06:08 GMT

ASRock Motherboard Based on AMD Fusion Costs Under 100 Euro

ASRock has recently been revealed to have scored big on the mainboard market, more or less, and it looks like it wants to keep going up, even if it means being the first to supply a Fusion platform priced at under 100 Euro.The AMD Fusion technology is an architecture which powers APUs (accelerated processing units),...

1 February 2011
05:21 GMT

ASRock Entering the Tablet Market, Relies on NVIDIA's Tegra 2

It seems that, while ASRock may be leaving a certain market segment behind, it may just enter another, the tablet market that is, meaning that it will have an entirely new competition to enlist for.Not long ago, ASRock was revealed to have become the world's third largest supplier of motherboards.No sooner had ...

31 January 2011
05:31 GMT

ASRock Leaving the Notebook Market

It appears that, while apparently doing well on the motherboard market, ASRock is not as well off on the notebook front, where it is supposedly considering a total withdrawal, as its efforts don't seem to be paying off. End-users keeping track of such developments will have probably learned of how the motherboa...

28 January 2011
09:49 GMT

Third Place as Motherboard Supplier Snatched by ASRock

It seems that Acer is not the only company that did well for itself throughout 2010, as ASRock also seems to have thrived, enough to actually secure the third spot as maker of motherboards.Currently, ASUS and Gigabyte are the top two suppliers of motherboards, at least according to so-called sources cited by Digitim...

27 January 2011
04:37 GMT

ASRock H67M-GE/HT LGA 1155 Motherboard Comes Bundled with 3D Glasses and MCE Remote

It seems like there is no end to the number of LGA 1155 motherboards that see the light of day ever since the introduction of the Sandy Bridge processor line, ASRock just increasing the number of solutions available by one with the release of the home entertainment oriented H67M-GE/HT model. Just as its name impli...

18 January 2011
06:39 GMT

ASRock Also Releases AMD Brazos Motherboard, Featuring E-350 APU

Lately, a wide series of Zacate and Ontario based products have started making their appearance online, ASRock being the latest company to introduce such a solution, the E350M1 AMD Brazos-powered motherboard that is destined to be used in low-cost computers. Although the official announcement has just come, the bo...

30 December 2010
04:40 GMT

ASRock's Upcoming P67 Extreme6 Sandy Bridge Motherboard Gets Picture Preview

Recently, ASRock has enjoyed quite some media hype thanks to its partnership with pro gamer Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, but the resulting P67 Professional isn't the company's only top of the line LGA 1155 motherboard, the P67 Extreme6 also standing up there with the best of them, a Chinese website just post...

20 December 2010
07:11 GMT

Fatal1ty and ASRock Make Their Partnership Official

Although the ASRock-built Intel P67 Fatal1ty motherboard has been out in the open for a while now, ASRock and Auravision, licensor for the Fatal1ty brand, have just announced their new partnership that is supposed to deliver a wide range of motherboards specifically designed for PC gaming enthusiasts. The first on...

13 December 2010
04:30 GMT

Fatal1ty Intel P67 Motherboard to Be Built by ASRock, Video Hands-On Included

Just a day has passed since we brought you the news that Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel is going to get his name on other motherboards and now we have just found out this is going to be built by Taiwanese manufacturer ASRock and not Asus as we originally thought.If you were around some years ago in the computer gaming sc...

3 December 2010
02:41 GMT

ASRock Readies LGA 1156 Motherboard Based on P67 LGA 1155 Chipset

It seems that unusual things never cease to occur on the hardware market, especially when it comes to next-generation devices, as ASRock has made it more than clear now with its upcoming P67-based motherboard. Hard disk drives with capacities of up to 24 TB have just been revealed to be closer to reality than one m...

26 November 2010
04:35 GMT

LGA 1155 Sandy Bridge ASRock Motherboard Lineup Detailed

With the Sandy Bridge CPU line from Intel coming in fast, makers of motherboards have started to hand out photos and full description of their LGA 1155 motherboards, and ASRock has just done this very thing.ASRock brought out no less than eight mainboards based on the LGA 1155 socket, four of them being aimed at the...

18 November 2010
09:09 GMT

ASRock Combines Calpella and NVIDIA's GT 425M in new Mini PC

Though the Intel Calpella platform and the 400M series of DirectX 11 NVIDIA GPUs are intended for laptops, ASRock decided to use a combination of both in the Vision 3D 135B Mini PC, a nettop with fairly decent specifications.NVIDIA, some time ago, unveiled a full line of graphics processing units aimed at mobile PCs...

15 September 2010
05:32 GMT

Gigabyte and ASRock Profit During the First Half of 2010

Apparently mirroring the overall favorable performance of the PC market segment, the motherboard industry seems to have done well for itself during the first two quarters of 2010, with Gigabyte and ASRock scoring some fairly solid profits.The time to post financial results cones periodically, and while sometimes IT ...

23 August 2010
07:07 GMT

ASRock Extreme6 Boasts Six USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gbps Ports

Even though it already has a number of high-end motherboards with SATA 6 Gbps and USB 3.0, ASRock decided to take things to the real extreme with the X58 Extreme6, a platform that has no less than six USB 3.0 connectors and just as many SATA 6Gbps ports. From the name alone, one can deduce that this product is compa...

19 August 2010
02:29 GMT

ASRock Slams High-End Market With 890GX Extreme4 Motherboard

ASRock has already caused a significant number of waves with its motherboards from the Extreme line, such as the Extreme3. Now, the same hardware maker has made a move on the high-end front and unleashed yet another member of this collection, dubbed 890GX Extreme4. This product combines high-quality circuitry and fe...

5 August 2010
05:53 GMT


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