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Date added: 10/31/2011 CCLOnline - Asrock X79 Extreme7 Pictured

Asrock has produced pictures of its new, high-end socket LGA2011 motherboard targeting the top tier of the PC enthusiast market. The X79 Extreme7 board will be part of the company’s first wave of LGA2011 motherboards which are penned in for a mid-November 2011 release. Pictures sourced by XFastest revel the board to be filled to the brim with high end features. The CPU socket is powered by a 16-phase VRM making use of high-grade chokes and sever grade poscap capacitors.

The socket is wired to six DDR3 DIMM slots arranged in sets of three on either sides of the socket, powered by a 4-phase VRM. Among channels A, B, C, and D; channels B and D have two DIMM slots wired, so if you have four DDR3 modules, you should populate slots 0, 2, 3, and 5; to take advantage of quad-channel DDR3 memory. There are heatsinks over the memory VRM areas, that are connected to the heatsink over the CPU VRM using heat pipes.

Expansion slots include five PCI-Express x16, two of these can run at full-bandwidth PCI-E 3.0 x16, four at PCI-E 3.0 x8 bandwidth (depending on how the slots are populated with add-on cards), one of these is wired to the X79 PCH and is PCI-E 2.0 x4 capable. There's a legacy PCI slot, too.

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