ASRock Just Announced The Full Fatal1ty Killer Gaming Motherboard Series
ASRock just unveiled the mew Killer Series motherboards, having exactly as the name states, killer design and performance. The series is made up of the Z87, B85, 990FX and FM2A88X+, all Killer!
Apart from the ludicrously fast Killer LAN that speeds up networking performances up to 5 times faster, this time ASRock has also added more surprising elements into the game, 990FX Killer is the world’s first motherboard to have a PCIe Gen2 x2/SATA M.2 socket.
The onboard M.2 socket is a new interface for connecting Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF) solid state drives or other devices. ASRock’s 990FX Killer supports M.2 SATA3 6.0Gb/s modules and M.2 PCI Express modules up to Gen2 x2 10Gb/s , which is 2X faster compared to other M.2 Gen2 x1 solutions that are limited to 5 Gb/s. It increases the NGFF SSDs performance while reducing the load time and boosting overall performance.
Other features that are included in the Killer gaming motherboard series include Premium Gold Capacitors, Digi Power, Purity Sound™ 115dB SNR, Gaming Armor, Key Master, F-Stream and XSplit 3 month premium license which is worth $24.95.
Motherboard full specs:
1 – ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer!
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- A-Style : Purity Sound, HDMI-In
- Gaming Armor
- » CPU Power – Hi-Density Power Connector
- » VGA Card – 15μ Gold Finger, SLI/CrossFireX™ Power Connector
- » Internet – Qualcomm Atheros Killer™ LAN
- » Audio – Purity Sound
- Supports 4th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 / i5 / i3 / Xeon® / Pentium® / Celeron® in LGA1150 Package
- Premium Gold Capacitor Design, Digi Power, 8 Power Phase Design
- Supports Dual Channel DDR3 3050+(OC)
- 3 PCIe 3.0 x16, 4 PCIe 2.0 x1
- Supports AMD 3-Way CrossFireX™, NVIDIA® Quad SLI
- VGA Output/Input Options : D-Sub, DVI-D, HDMI-Out, HDMI-In
- 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1150 Audio Codec), Supports DTS Connect
- Qualcomm Atheros Killer™ E2200 Series Gigabit LAN
- Supports A-Style, F-Stream, Key Master, Easy Driver Installer, FAN-Tastic Tuning, USB Key
- 6 SATA3, 6 USB 3.0 (2 Front, 4 Rear), 8 USB 2.0 (4 Front, 3 Rear, 1 Fatal1ty Mouse Port)
- Free Bundle : XSplit 3 Months Premium License
2 – ASRock Fatal1ty B85 Killer!
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- A-Style : Purity Sound
- Gaming Armor
- » CPU Power – Hi-Density Power Connector
- » VGA Card – 15μ Gold Finger
- » Internet – Qualcomm Atheros Killer™ LAN
- » Audio – Purity Sound
- Supports 4th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 / i5 / i3 / Xeon® / Pentium® / Celeron® in LGA1150 Package
- Premium Gold Capacitor Design, Digi Power
- Supports Dual Channel DDR3 1600
- 1 PCIe 3.0 x16, 1 PCIe 2.0 x16, 2 PCIe 2.0 x1, 3 PCI
- Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, CrossFireX
- VGA Output Options : D-Sub, DVI-D, HDMI
- 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1150 Audio Codec), Supports DTS Connect
- Qualcomm Atheros Killer™ E2200 Series Gigabit LAN
- Supports A-Style, F-Stream, Key Master, Easy Driver Installer, FAN-Tastic Tuning, USB Key
- 4 SATA3, 2 SATA2, 4 USB 3.0 (2 Front, 2 Rear), 8 USB 2.0 (4 Front, 3 Rear, 1 Fatal1ty Mouse Port)
- Free Bundle : XSplit 3 Months Premium License
3 – ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer!
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- A-Style : Purity Sound
- Gaming Armor
- » CPU Power – Hi-Density Power Connector
- » VGA Card – 15μ Gold Finger, SLI/CrossFireX™ Power Connector
- » Internet – Qualcomm Atheros Killer™ LAN
- » Audio – Purity Sound
- Supports Socket AM3+ / AM3 processors
- Supports 8-Core CPUs
- Premium Gold Capacitor Design, Digi Power, 8 + 2 Power Phase Design
- Supports Dual Channel DDR3 2450(OC)
- 3 PCIe 3.0 x16, 2 PCIe 2.0 x1
- Supports AMD 3-Way CrossFireX™, NVIDIA® Quad SLI
- 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1150 Audio Codec), Supports DTS Connect
- Qualcomm Atheros Killer™ E2200 Series Gigabit LAN
- Supports A-Style, F-Stream, Key Master, X-Boost, XFast RAM, Easy Driver Installer
- 5 SATA3, 1 M.2 (NGFF) Socket, 1 eSATA3
- 7 USB 3.0 (2 Front, 4 Rear, 1 Vertical Type A), 10 USB 2.0 (4 Front, 5 Rear, 1 Fatal1ty Mouse Port)
- Free Bundle : XSplit 3 Months Premium License
4 – ASRock Fatal1ty FM2A88X+ Killer!
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- A-Style : Purity Sound™
- Gaming Armor
- » CPU Power – Hi-Density Power Connector
- » VGA Card – 15μ Gold Finger, SLI/CrossFireX™ Power Connector
- » Internet – Qualcomm Atheros Killer™ LAN
- » Audio – Purity Sound
- Supports Socket FM2+ 95W / FM2 100W processors
- Premium Gold Capacitor Design, Digi Power
- Supports Dual Channel DDR3 2600+(OC)
- 1 PCIe 3.0 x16, 1 PCIe 2.0 x16, 2 PCIe 2.0 x1, 3 PCI
- Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, CrossFireX™ and Dual Graphics
- Graphics Output Options : D-Sub, DVI-D, HDMI
- 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1150 Audio Codec), Supports DTS Connect
- Qualcomm Atheros Killer™ E2200 Series Gigabit LAN
- Supports A-Style, Key Master, F-Stream, X-Boost, XFast RAM, Easy Driver Installer, USB Key
- 8 SATA3, 6 USB 3.0 (2 Front, 4 Rear), 10 USB 2.0 (6 Front, 3 Rear, 1 Fatal1ty Mouse Port)
- Free Bundle : XSplit 3 Months Premium License
For more information please refer to the ASRock Fatal1ty website.
Thank you ASRock for providing us with this information
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