Two of the SATA3 connectors are provided by the Marvell SE9120, which supports NCQ, AHCI and “Hot Plug” functions:

Very near to the P67 chipset cooler, we can find the PLX PEX8608 PCI Express switch chip, which offers 8 PCI Express 2.0 lanes:

The Extreme4 offers a 8+2 Power Phase design and the VRM heatsinks have been redesigned from the previous generations:

The VRM heatsink is split into two parts and linked with one heatpipe:

Near the DDR3 memory slots and the VRM heatsink, we can find other two fan headers, one 4-pin and one 3-pin:

The memory slots channels are color coded:

On the top left side of the motherboard, we can find the ATX 8-pin Power connector:

Very near to the ATX 8-pin Power connector, we can find another 3-pin fan header:

The P67 chipset heatsink has a cool appearance, with the ASRock logo and a V8 printed on it:

The LGA1155 socket components keep about the same color theme as the rest of the heatsinks located on the board:

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

-PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard port

-Clear CMOS Switch

-Optical and Coaxial SPDIF Out port

-6x USB 2.0 ports

-2x USB 3.0 ports

-1x LAN RJ45 port

-1x eSATA3 connectors

-1x IEEE1394 Port

-6x Audio jacks