ASRock P67 Extreme6 Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1155 by stefan @ 2011-02-03

The Extreme6 P67 motherboard from ASRock is one of their high-end products for the Sandy Bridge CPUs and features a 16+2 Power Phase Design, along with a decent software+hardware bundle.

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A Closer Look Part III

On the bottom side of the PCB, we can find lots of headers (from left to right):

 

-HDMI-SPDIF Header

-Infrared Module Header

-Front Panel Audio Header

-Floppy Connector

-COM port Header

-USB 3.0 Header

-4xUSB 2.0 Headers

-2x Chassis Fan Headers

-System Panel Header

-Chassis Speaker Header

-Power LED Header

 

 

Near the CMOS battery, we can find the Reset CMOS Jumper:

 

 

4 SATA3 connectors are supported by the Marvell SE9120, which supports NCQ, AHCI and “Hot Plug” functions:

 

 

The AMI UEFI with GUI support is written inside a 64Mb SPI Flash chip:

 

 

In the bottom right corner, we can find the LED display named by ASRock Dr. Debug, along with the Power and Reset buttons:

 

 

The board comes with no less than 10 SATA ports, the white ones being SATA3 and the blue ones SATA2:

 

 

Further up, we can find other two 3-pin fan headers along with the Front Panel 1394 one:

 

 

The memory slots are color coded, so we can identify the channels easier:

 

 

Between the memory slots and the VRM cooler, on the top part of the PCB we can find two CPU fan headers:

 

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Comment from jmke @ 2011/02/05
With 6 none-affected SATA ports on this board, I'd say this product should be on your shortlist
Comment from Dave65 @ 2011/02/06
Well this was on my short list,had it one week and it or the CPU died.It shut off out of the blue and the only thing that would run is the fans,with code 19 on the display..Was a nice looking board,I really liked it..

 

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