ASRock X79 Extreme9

Nice board but ..... it has a big ole' 3 way SLI stamped right on the board. I want 4 way SLI/Crossfire. With 40 PCIe lanes that is 32 lanes dedicated to an 8x8x8x8x and 8 more lanes for other crap like required motherboard components etc....

I do like the 8 RAM slots though. Especially when you run XMP certified Dimms that will probably guarantee advertised speeds no matter the overclock.
 
tangoseal said:
Nice board but ..... it has a big ole' 3 way SLI stamped right on the board. I want 4 way SLI/Crossfire. With 40 PCIe lanes that is 32 lanes dedicated to an 8x8x8x8x and 8 more lanes for other crap like required motherboard components etc...
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I believe it's because of licensing fees with Nvidia. X58 was the same. The only way you could do 4-way SLI was with a NF200 chip.
 
SolidBladez said:
I believe it's because of licensing fees with Nvidia. X58 was the same. The only way you could do 4-way SLI was with a NF200 chip.
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I've read in a couple of places that X79 will not have that limitation. nVidia is done in the chipset business and went ahead and licensed Intel for 4-way SLI on X79.
 
Expect the ASRock X79 Extreme9 to be counted among the costliest socket LGA2011 motherboards.
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Gah! what happened to ASRock being the budget friendly mobo company?
 
Looks like a very nice board, but that four-pin molex connector looks awfully close to the first PCI-E slot and might pose a problem with some connectors.

Also, that VRM heatsink's silver shroud looks like it's hanging over one DIMM slot, but it looks easily removable at least.
 
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SolidBladez said:
I believe it's because of licensing fees with Nvidia. X58 was the same. The only way you could do 4-way SLI was with a NF200 chip.
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That is because X79 has 40 PCI-e lanes, why is there no way you cant do 8x 8x 8x 8x quad xfire/sli with that many lanes? An NF200 chip is no longer needed anymore.
 
tangoseal said:
That is because X79 has 40 PCI-e lanes, why is there no way you cant do 8x 8x 8x 8x quad xfire/sli with that many lanes? An NF200 chip is no longer needed anymore.
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X58 had 32 PCI-E lanes dedicated to graphics as well. The same boards that were tri-SLI certified were also quad-crossfire capable. nVidia created a BS reason requiring at least the primary card to run in x16 mode, and that required the NF200 chip.
 
Im liking this board alot more than the Extreme 7.

What I dont like however is that sound/nic card sits right in damn middle of the slots.

Why dont they have it as slot 1 or put it towards the bottom?

I was planning on doing 3 way sli anyway so I wont knock it that much, but so far this is definitly one of the better boards that I have seen.

Oh and BTW that is a Sound Blaster audio. If you zoom in on it you can see the logo. Probably a Bigfoot nic as well.
 
They probably got their own 3-way SLI-bridge for this motherboard. However, I am unaware of any information that says you cannot put the daughterboard in slot 1 and all your video cards in the remaining slots.
 
Im all about ROG but that is a nice board. I wont lie now that I look at it more.
 
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