ASRock company is preparing to release the motherboard X79 Fatal1ty Champion - second model Fatal1ty Series chipset Intel X79 Express, designed for the processors LGA 2011.
In contrast to model Fatal1ty X79 Professional, the new motherboard has not four, but eight slots for DDR3 memory modules , and the possibility of expansion slots are only PCI-E. The power system is organized on a similar DigiPower 12-phase scheme. Radiators on the board are connected with heat pipes.
If user install two video cards only the first two of the five slots, PCI-E 3.0 x16 work at full strength. For more cards, slots will switch to x8. Between them there was a place for two slots PCI-E 2.0 x1. There are six ports SATA 6 Gb / s, four SATA 3Gb / s ports and two eSATA.
The total number of USB 3.0 ports on the motherboard is up to eight. There are two Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on Broadcom BCM57781 Controller with support for XFastLAN, multi-channel audio codec Creative Sound Core3D (8 + 2 channels), A control points for measuring voltages and FireWire connectors.
In Japan, the model ASRock X79 Fatal1ty Champion will go on sale on 27 April at a price of about $ 465.