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 IV

The CPU socket is surrounded with heatsinks, over the VRM and P67 chipset. The board does also come with a 16+2 Power Phase Design:

 

 

 

The PCB has pre-drilled holes for LGA775 compatible coolers, in case we have a good one that we want to reuse:

 

 

 

ASRock has used 100% Japan-made high-quality Conductive Polymer Golden Capacitors all over the board:

 

 

 

All 3 heatsinks are linked with a heatpipe and have different writings on them:

 

 

 

 

 

The bottom heatsink (which covers the PLX chip) is very similar with the one found on the Extreme4 and features a nice ASRock logo:

 

 

 

On the back of the motherboard, we can find a ChiL CHL8328, which is a Dual Loop, 7+1 multiphase PWM controller:

 

 

 

The I/O Panel ports/switches are the following:

 

-PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Port

-Clear CMOS Switch

-A Coaxial and an Optical SPDIF Out Port

-4x USB 3.0 Ports

-4x USB 2.0 Ports

-2x RJ45 LAN ports

-1x IEEE 1394 Port

-1x eSATA3 connector

-6x Audio jacks

 

 

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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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