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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Extreme6 UEFI Continued

The Storage Configuration sub-menu allows us to change the functionality of the onboard SATA3 Marvell controller, or we can set the SATA mode for the SATA2 ports, enable/disable S.M.A.R.T. and so on. In the same menu, we can see listed the detected drives connected to the motherboard:

 

In the Super IO Configuration submenu, we can enable/disable the Onboard Floppy Controller, the Serial Port or the Infrared Port:

 

In the ACPI Configuration sub-menu, we can modify some of the power management settings:

 

In the USB Configuration sub-menu, we can enable/disable the USB controllers, or enable legacy support for older devices:

 

The H/W Monitor section shows us extended live information regarding the temperatures, connected fan speeds or the voltages; in the same section we can set the fan speeds on different levels, or we can enable/disable the Over-Temperature Protection feature:

 

In the Boot section, we can set the boot option priorities, enable/disable the Full Screen Logo, LAN boot or the Boot Failure Guard:

 

In the Security section, we can see options most of us are familiar with from the older BIOSes; here we can set the Supervisor or User passwords:

 

Finally, the Exit section contains options to save, discard or load default UEFI values; there is another new option available, which makes the launch of the EFI Shell from a file system device possible:

 

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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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