ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional
 

Today we have the opportunity to test ASRock's latest Intel Sandy Bridge offering. If you view ASRock as a purely budget brand and would skip them when considering your next upgrade, in favour of more dominant manufacturers, this review may well change your opinion. So let's check out what ASRock have to offer!

ASRock's Fatal1ty P67 Professional supports the latest dual and quad core Intel Sandy Bridge processors (LGA1155). It features ten SATA ports (six SATA 3.0, four SATA 2.0) with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 support, a V16 + 2 power phase design, four DDR3 memory slots with support for XMP profiles and speeds up to 2133MHz, six SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports and Dual Realtek Gigabit LAN. It also has three PCI-Express x16 slots, allowing for CrossFireX and SLI configurations, all while conforming to an ATX Form Factor measuring in at 30.5cm x 24.4cm.

The "Fatal1ty" branding indicates a partnership between ASRock's designers and Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, a professional gamer. He's been associated with various products from several manufacturers over the last few years and his logos and face adorn this motherboard, box, manual and UEFI BIOS. There are some features of this board which are gaming-specific so have presumably been included at the suggestion of Fatal1ty. I'm not sure if that's particularly going to be a selling point for most people, but it does at least make it clear that ASRock are aiming this product at the gaming and enthusiast crowd.


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