ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1155 by stefan @ 2011-04-21

The P67 Professional Motherboard from ASRock is the Fatal1ty branded product from the series and comes with a lot of features like Digital PWM, XFast USB Technology, V16+2 CPU Power Phases, no less than 6 USB 3.0 ports and 6 SATA3, C.C.O., THX TruStudio Pro, and the unique Fatal1ty Mouse Port, which allows us to set the desired mouse polling rate, up to 1000Hz.

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A Closer Look Part III

The board is held in a separate enclosure, with a plastic transparent cover on top:

 

 

 

The Fatal1ty Professional has a very catchy look, much better than the Extreme4 or Extreme6 with the same chipset; the cooling system is divided in 4 separate parts and linked with a heatpipe:

 

 

 

On the top left corner of the PCB we can find another sticker which reminds us about the new B3 P67 chipset revision:

 

 

 

The board has 3 USB 3.0 EtronTech EJ168A controllers; one of them is placed near the 8-pin ATX 12V connector, the second one is in the back of the audio connectors and the third is located near the bottom PCI slot:

 

 

 

 

 

The board also features two Realtek RTL8111E Gigabit Ethernet controllers, placed between the I/O shield connectors and the VRM:

 

 

 

 

One of the fan headers can be found right near the first PCI-Express x1 slot:

 

 

 

The audio interface on this motherboard is provided by a Realtek ALC892 HD Codec:

 

 

 

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