ASRock is proud to release 4Core1333-eSATA2, the features-abundant Intel^® P31/G31 chipset motherboard!

It is evident that Intel^® is planning to change the FSB1066MHz generation to FSB1333MHz generation by releasing lots of FSB1333MHz CPU to the market recently. To go with the 45nm trend, ASRock is proud to release FSB1333 MHz motherboard - ASRock 4Core1333-eSATA2, which is based on Intel^® P31/G31 + ICH7R chipsets, gives you Core™ 2 Quad, FSB1333 MHz CPU support, DDRII800, ATI™ CrossFire™, eSATAII ports, PCIE Gigabit LAN, IEEE1394, RAID and all other practical functions…

4Core1333-eSATA2

Aug 17^th, 2007, Taipei

Cost-effective and creativity as ASRock is, it is proud to announce its first Intel^® 3 Series motherboard - ASRock 4Core1333-eSATA2! ASRock 4Core1333-eSATA2, which based on Intel^® P31/G31 + ICH7R chipsets, basically supports FSB1333MHz, provides the excellent cost-performance solution to you. Literally from the model name, you realize this motherboard definitely supports Intel^® Core™ 2 Quad such as Q6600 CPU, FSB1333 CPU like E6850 CPU, Core™ 2 Duo, Pentium^® Dual Core and Celeron^® 400 series CPU. This Quad Core motherboard also supports DDRII800, CrossFire™, and useful features like PCIE Gigabit LAN and IEEE1394.

You may probably find a lot of similar features on this motherboard with ASRock ConRoe1333-eSATA2. Well, you must be a big fan of ASRock motherboard! This motherboard is inherited from ConRoe1333-eSATA2 but using the latest and new generation Intel^® G31/P31 Series Chipset, supporting up to date 45nm processors, Quad-Core CPU, front side bus FSB1333MHz and DDRII800.

Except the CPU and memory part, ASRock 4Core1333-eSATA2 outstandingly supports many other practical and interesting features, such as ATI™ CrossFire™ with one PCI Express x16 and additional AGI Express slot, PCIE Gigabit LAN, 2 x IEEE1394 ports (one port on back panel, one header on board) and 1 x eSerial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s port. With the usage of ICH7R South Bridge, this motherboard also supports 4 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s and RAID functions of RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel^® Matrix Storage.

As for Windows^® Vista™ support, 4Core1333-eSATA2 is equipped with 7.1 CH Windows^® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec), which is one very important criteria to support Windows^® Vista™ Premium.

ASRock lab. Ran some performance tests with P35 ref. board, and the figure shows that 4Core1333-eSATA2 excels in many test items.

Performance Comparison with P35 ref. MB (with E6850 CPU)

Here are 4Core1333-eSATA2 brief specifications:

• LGA 775 for Intel^® Core™ 2 Quad / Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium^® XE / Pentium^® D / Pentium^® Dual Core / Pentium^® 4 / Celeron^® / Celeron^® D, supporting Quad Core Kentsfield processors
• Intel^® P31/G31 + ICH7R Chipsets
• Compatible with all FSB1333/1066/800/533MHz CPUs
• Untied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed PCIE/ PCI Buses
• Supports Dual Channel DDRII800/667/533 x 4 DIMM slots, with max. capacity up to 4GB
• Supports ATI™ CrossFire™
• 1 x PCI Express x 16 slot
• Additional AGI Express slot to adopt 2^nd PCI Express x 16 VGA card, and other PCI Express x4, x2, x1 interface cards
• Hybrid Booster – ASRock Safe Overclocking Technology
• Supports PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
• Supports 2 x IEEE1394 ports (one port on back panel, one header on board)
• 4 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel^® Matrix Storage), NCQ and AHCI functions
• 1 x eSerial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s (shared with 1 SATAII port)
• HDMI_SPDIF header, providing SPDIF audio output to HDMI VGA card, allows the system to connect HDMI Digital TV/projector/LCD devices.
• 7.1 CH Windows^® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec)
• Windows^® Vista™ Premium 2007 Logo Ready
• ASRock 1394_eSATAII I/O Plus: 1 eSATAII port, 1 x IEEE 1394 port, 4 ready-to-use USB ports