ASRock provides premium LGA1155 motherboard lineup a boostwith the new Z68 Fatal1ty. In addition to the Z68 chipset-basedmotherboard is modeled along the lines of its predecessor, P67ASRock Fatal1ty, features a new motherboard PCI-Express 3.0graphics slot, which works on Sandy Bridge and the Bridge of future Ivy processors. The new generation of PCI-E interconnect all three can drive 1 GB / s of data per link, per direction. You must bePCI-E 3.0 compliant add-on cards to use the bandwidth, the current graphics card will run at a speed of Genesis 2. One advantage here could be that AMD's Radeon HD 5000 and HD 6000 series GPU single graphics card will run on Gen 2.1 mode, which has a slightly higher bandwidth thanks to disposal to reduce the overhead of data coding schemes.
The ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 is designed for both gamers andoverclockers, using high quality components. LGA1155 socket is powered by a 18-phase VRM, transferred to four DDR3 DIMMslots supporting dual channel DDR3-2133 MHz (the optimalmemory speed Ivy Bridge IMC). Featuring Intel's Flexible DisplayInterface (FDI), the board allows you to use integrated graphics.With Lucid Virtu technology, you can switch between integrated graphics and discrete graphics card. Expansion slots include twoPCI-Express 3.0 x16 (electrical x8/x8 when both are occupied),one PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (x4 electrical, cable to Z68 PCH), andtwo each PCI-E 2.0 x1 and PCI legacy.Storage Connectivity includes six SATA 6 Gb / s ports, four internal3 Gb / s ports, two eSATA 3 Gb / s, E-IDE and FDD. It supportsIntel SSD-caching Smart Response technology connectivityincludes four USB 3.0 ports (two internal), 8-channel HD audio, twoUSB 2.0 ports low-latency/high-polling optimized for gaming mice, dual gigabit Ethernet, and display connectivity which includes D-Sub and HDMI.
