Asrock FATAL1TY Z68 PROFESSIONAL GEN3 BROCHURE

Digital PWM

Design

Intel Smart Response Technology

Z68 Professional Gen3

Intel® Z68 Chipset

Detail Specification

Platform CPU

Chipset Memory

Expansion Slot

Graphics

Audio

Free Bundle

Front USB 3.0 Panel

PCIE

3.0

TrialTrial

Built-in

Visuals

Free Bundle

On/Off

Play

3.5mm Audio Cable

Fatal1ty Mouse Port

Product Brief

- Premium Gold Caps (2.5 x longer life time), 100% Japan-made high-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors

- Digital PWM Design, Advanced V12 + 6 Power Phase Design

- Supports Dual Channel DDR3 2133(OC)

- 2 x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots, 1 PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot

- Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX CrossFireX

and CrossFireX

- Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLITM and SLI

- Dual PCIE GLAN with Teaming function

- Dr. Debug, Smart Swith Design: Power/Reset/Clear CMOS Switch with LED

- Supports Fatal1ty XFast USB Technology, Graphical UEFI, Lucid Virtu, Intel Smart Response Technology

- Supports Fatal1ty F-Stream, On/Off Play Technology, APP Charger, SmartView

- 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec), Supports THX TruStudio

- Free Bundle : 1 x 3.5mm Audio Cable, 1 x Front USB 3.0 Panel, CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 Trial

The specification is subject to change without notice. The brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Any configuration other than original product specification is not guaranteed.

, 3-Way

LAN

Rear Panel I/O

SATA3

USB 3.0

Connector

Smart Switch BIOS Feature

Support CD Unique Feature

Hardware Monitor

OS Certifications

Accessories

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- ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 9.6-in, 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm

- All Solid Capacitor design (100% Japan-made high-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors)

- Supports 2

Generation Intel® CoreTM i7 / i5 / i3 in LGA1155 Package

- Advanced V12 + 6 Power Phase Design

- Supports Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology

- Supports Intel® K-Series unlocked CPU

- Supports Hyper-Threading Technology

- Intel

Z68

- Dual Channel DDR3 memory technology

- 4 x DDR3 DIMM slots

- Supports DDR3 2133(OC)/1866(OC)/1600/1333/1066 non-ECC, un-buffered memory

- Max. capacity of system memory: 32GB

Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)

- Supports Intel

- 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (PCIE2/PCIE4: single at x16 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE4) or dual at x8/x8 mode)

- 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot (PCIE5: x4 mode)

- 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots

- 2 x PCI slots

- Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX

- Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLITM and SLI

- Supports Intel® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals : Intel® Quick Sync Video, Intel® InTruTM 3D, Intel® Clear Video HD Technology, Intel® HD Graphics 2000/3000, Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

- Pixel Shader 4.1, DirectX 10.1

- Max. shared memory 1759MB

- Four VGA Output options: one D-Sub port, two HDMI ports and one DVI-D port by the bundled HDMI to DVI adapter

- Supports HDMI 1.4a Technology with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz

- Supports DVI with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz

- Supports D-Sub with max. resolution up to 2048x1536 @ 75Hz

- Supports Auto Lip Sync, Deep Color (12bpc), xvYCC and HBR (High Bit Rate Audio) with HDMI (Compliant HDMI monitor is required)

- Supports HDCP function with DVI and HDMI ports

- Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) / HD-DVD playback with DVI and HDMI ports

- 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec)

- Premium Blu-ray audio support

- Supports THX TruStudio

- PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s

- Realtek RTL8111E

- Supports Wake-On-LAN

- Supports LAN Cable Detection

- Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az

- Supports Dual LAN with Teaming function

- Supports PXE I/O Panel

- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port

- 1 x VGA/D-Sub Port

- 2 x HDMI Ports

- 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port

- 3 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports

- 1 x Fatal1ty Mouse Port (USB 2.0)

- 1 x eSATA3 Connector

- 4 x Ready-to-Use USB 3.0 Ports

- 2 x RJ-45 LAN Ports with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)

- 1 x IEEE 1394 Port

- 1 x Clear CMOS Switch with LED

- HD Audio Jack: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone

- 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors by Intel RAID 5, Intel Rapid Storage and Intel Smart Response Technology), NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions

- 4 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors by ASMedia ASM1061, support NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions (SATA3_A4 connector is shared with eSATA3 port)

- 4 x Rear USB 3.0 ports by ASMedia ASM1042, support USB 1.0/2.0/

3.0 up to 5Gb/s

- 1 x Front USB 3.0 header (supports 2 USB 3.0 ports) by ASMedia ASM1042, supports USB 1.0/2.0/3.0 up to 5Gb/s

- 4 x SATA2 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, Intel Rapid Storage and Intel Smart Response Technology), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions

- 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors

- 1 x ATA133 IDE connector (supports 2 x IDE devices)

- 1 x Floppy connector

- 1 x IR header

- 1 x COM port header

- 1 x HDMI_SPDIF header

- 1 x IEEE 1394 header

- 1 x Power LED header

- CPU/Chassis/Power FAN connector

- 24 pin ATX power connector

- 8 pin 12V power connector

- CD in header

- Front panel audio connector

- 2 x USB 2.0 headers (support 4 USB 2.0 ports)

- 1 x USB 3.0 header (supports 2 USB 3.0 ports)

- 1 x Dr. Debug with LED

- 1 x Power Switch with LED

- 1 x Reset Switch with LED

- 1 x Clear CMOS Switch with LED

- 64Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with GUI support

- Supports "Plug and Play"

- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events

- Supports jumperfree

- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support

- CPU Core, IGPU, DRAM, PCH, CPU PLL, VTT, VCCSA Voltage Multi-adjustment

- Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version), CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 Trial, ASRock Software Suite (CyberLink DVD Suite - OEM and Trial)

- F-Stream

- ASRock Instant Boot

- ASRock Instant Flash

- ASRock APP Charger

- ASRock SmartView

- ASRock XFast USB

- Lucid Virtu

- ASRock On/Off Play Technology

- Hybrid Booster:

- CPU Frequency Stepless Control

- ASRock U-COP

- Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G.)

- Combo Cooler Option (C.C.O.)

- Good Night LED

- CPU Temperature Sensing

- Chassis Temperature Sensing

- CPU/Chassis/Power Fan Tachometer

- CPU/Chassis Quiet Fan (Allow Chassis Fan Speed Auto-Adjust by CPU Temperature)

- CPU/Chassis Fan Multi-Speed Control

- Voltage Monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Vcore

Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit compliant

- Microsoft

- FCC, CE, WHQL

- ErP/EuP Ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required)

- 1 x ASRock SLI_Bridge_2S Card

- Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield

- Floppy/ATA 133 cables

- 6 x SATA Data Cables (Optional)

- 2 x SATA 1 to 1 Power Cables (Optional)

- 1 x 3.5mm Audio Cable (Optional)

- 1 x Front USB 3.0 Panel

- 4 x HDD Screws

- 6 x Chassis Screws

- 1 x Rear USB 3.0 Bracket

- 1 x HDMI to DVI Adapter

, 3-Way CrossFireXTM and CrossFireXTM

Z68, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10,

SSD CacheSSD Cache

HDD

Z68 Professional Gen3

Intel® Z68 Chipset

PCIE 3.0 slots – Support Quad SLI, 3-Way CrossFireX

Supporting Nvidia SLI / Quad SLI and AMD 3-Way CrossFireX / Quad CrossFireX. PCI Express 3.0 slots maximize the bandwidth for the next-gen PCI Express 3.0 VGA cards, provide ultimate graphics performance.

Note:

1. PCIE2/PCIE4 are PCI Express 3.0 slots; PCIE5 is PCI Express 2.0 slot.

2. To run the PCI Express 3.0 slots in Gen3 speed, please must install the Ivy Bridge CPU which supports PCI Express 3.0. If you install the Sandy Bridge CPU, the PCI Express 3.0 slots will run only at Gen2 speed.

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Lucid Virtu

With Lucid Virtu software, next-generation PCs with 2 processor platforms will dynamically assign tasks in real time to the best available graphics resource based on power, performance and features.

Video File Convert Comparison

m2ts => MP4

31 sec

235.48%

Faster

Fatal1ty Z68 MB with Lucid Virtu (Convert by Intel HD Graphics) Other Z68 MB without Lucid Virtu (Convert by Nvidia GTX580)

104 sec

(Lower is better)Convert time

Intel Smart Response Technology

For users who are tempted to connect the SSD and HDD on Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 Motherboard, the Intel Smart Response Technology can make the SSD become the "Cache of the HDD" to boost up the HDD access speed.

Generation Intel® Core™

Test Platform :

MB : Fatal1ty Z68 Motherboard Other Z68 Motherboard CPU : Intel Core i7 2600K 3.4GHz DRAM : Kingston DDR3-1333 2Gx2 HDD : WD 500GB VGA : Nvidia GTX580 ; Intel HD Graphics OS : Windows 7 64bit SP1 Lucid : Lucid VIRTU 1.0.105 Nvidia Driver : 266.58 Application : Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.5 Original File : m2ts, 1080p, 2200MB

Performance

Boost Up!

PCMark 05 HDD Score

WD 1TB SATA3 HDD Intel SSD 311 Series + WD 1TB SATA3 HDD

(With Smart Response Technology)

6149

28009

355.5%

Performance Boosts Up

Boot time

WD 1TB SATA3 HDD Intel SSD 311 Series + WD 1TB SATA3 HDD

(With Smart Response Technology)

35.2 sec

28.36 sec

19.4%

Performance Boosts Up

PLX PEX8608 Chip Onboard

PCI-E x1

Z68

CHIPSET

With PLX PEX8608 chip, it generates more PCI-E lanes for PCI-E devices, so that all PCI-E devices are able to work at the proper speed simultaneously!

PCI-E x4

PLX

PEX8608 Chip

PCI-E x1 PCI-E x1 PCI-E x1

PCI-E x1 Slot PCI-E x1 Slot Gigabit LAN PCI-E to PCI Bridge PCI-E x4 Slot Running at x4

System Configuration:

MB : Z68 Professional Gen3 BIOS : L0.33 CPU : i7-2600K 3.4G DRAM : Kingston DDR3-1333 2Gx2 SSD : Intel SSD 311 Series HDD : WD 1TB SATA3 HDD OS : Windows 7 64bit SP1 on WD 1TB SATA3 HDD

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