Asrock Penryn1600SLIX3-WiFi S775 Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S775 by massman @ 2008-07-14

In their known style, Asrock re-invented the 680i platform by creating the only official 45nm and 3-Way SLI supporting 680i motherboard. Let´s see how this relatively cheap motherboard performs against the newer 750i platform.

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Picturising the Asrock

Pictures of the Asrock mainboard

Let's have a look at what the board has got to offer.

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Box lay-out

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Accessoires

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  • 1 x ASRock WiFi-802.11g Module
  • 1 x Antenna
  • 1 x ASRock SLI Bridge
  • 1 x ASRock 3-Way SLI Bridge
  • Quick Installation Guide
  • Support CD
  • I/O Shield
  • Floppy/ATA 133 Cables
  • 4 x SATA Data Cables
  • 1 x SATA 1 to 1 Power Cable
  • 1 x HDMI_SPDIF Cable

    Board lay-out

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    There's more room than expected around the socket area. Good for those who want to go extreme with this motherboard.

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  • 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port
  • 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port
  • 1 x Serial Port: COM1
  • 1 x Parallel Port (ECP/EPP Support)
  • 4 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports
  • 1 x eSATAII Port
  • 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
  • 1 x IEEE 1394 Port
  • HD Audio Jack: Side Speaker / Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone

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  • 54Mbps IEEE 802.11g / 11Mbps IEEE 802.11b
  • Supports Software Access Point mode (AP mode) and Station mode (Infrastructure mode and Ad-hoc mode)

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  • 3 x PCI Express x16 slots (white @ x16 mode, yellow @ x8 mode)
  • 2 x PCI Express x1 slots
  • 2 x PCI slots

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  • 6 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD and RAID 5), NCQ and "Hot Plug" functions
  • 1 x eSATAII 3.0 Gb/s connector (shared with 1 SATAII port), supports NCQ and "Hot Plug" functions
  • 1 x ATA133 IDE connector (supports 2 x IDE devices)
  • 1 x Floppy connector
  • 1 x DeskExpress Hot Plug Detection header
  • 1 x HDMI_SPDIF header
  • 1 x IEEE 1394 header
  • CPU/Chassis FAN connector
  • 24 pin ATX power connector
  • 8 pin 12V power connector
  • CD in header
  • Front panel audio connector
  • 2 x USB 2.0 headers (support 4 USB 2.0 ports)
  • 1 x WiFi/E header

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    And yes, Asrock still places the power connectors on very hard to reach places. Notice the Sata port that was excluded from the rest of the slots

    Let's have a look at the BIOS options ->
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