Review ASRock P67 Fatal1ty feat. Intel Core i7 2600K

Fatal1ty is a line from the ASRock board that tried to penetrated to a segment of gamers and overclockers. At a glance Fatal1ty has a similar design theme ROG especially color, but somehow we're welcome was for ASRock entry offers an alternative option for enthusiast gamers. The price I saw in one online shop range at $ 240.

FEATURES & SPECIFICATION

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


• Digi Power, Advanced V16 + 2 Power Phase Design


• Supports Intel® K-Series unlocked CPU


• Supports Dual Channel DDR3 2133(OC)


• Supports ATI™ Quad CrossFireX™, 3-Way CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™


• Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLI™ and SLI™


• Dual PCIE GLAN with Teaming function


• 1 x Fatal1ty Mouse Port, 2 x Front USB 3.0 ports, 4 x Rear USB 3.0 ports, 6 x SATA3 connectors, 1 x eSATA3 connector, 2 x IEEE 1394 ports


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


• Supports Fatal1ty F-Stream, XFast USB, UEFI, Instant Boot, Instant Flash, Good Night LED, APP Charger, SmartView


• Combo Cooler Option (C.C.O.)


• 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec), THX TruStudio PRO™ and Premium Blu-ray audio support


• Free Bundle : 1 x SLI_Bridge_2S Card , 1 x Front USB 3.0 Panel, 1 x Rear USB 3.0 Bracket

Design extremely sweet, with abundant to the stability of the intake phase voltage to the processor when overclocked. Port to SATA ports with 10 extremely much! enough to RAID HDD 5x2 LoL. Btw lets go to test.

Fatal1ty software for monitoring similar to ASRock P67 variants with differences exist in the skin and features Fatal1ty USB gaming mouse port

SYSTEM TEST

• ASRock P67 BIOS v1.60 Fatal1ty


• Intel Core i7 2600K


• Cooler Master V6GT White Edition


• G. Skill 2x2GB 2000 Ripjaws C9 Elpida chipset BBSE thanks to Indra 'dedde' Gamexeon


• Sapphire HD6950 thanks to Astrindo


• Seagate 500GB SATA2 7200RPM HDD

TESTING SESSION

• Trying to overclock the system with the wall on Voltage processor that will not force our way above 1.4V for extreme stability tests, daily usage purpose / / Setting # 1


• Maximizing memory speed with timings as tight as possible, low RAM Voltage / / Setting # 1
  2600K i7 processor benchmarking runs stock clock (default) 3.4GHz w / Turbo On / / Setting # 2


• Comparison Setting # 1 vs. performance. Setting # 2


• Bclk overclock ASRock Fatality capable of running with the wall voltage does not exceed 1.5V

Preparation OVERCLOCKING
Actually there is an option to overclock the system by using the presets from Fatal1ty AUTO in the BIOS. We can try to select the run from the AUTO default to 4.8GHz, and that was enough for gamers to get extra performance by setting a la overlock ASRock, its stable before I try. But there is a bit excessive voltage parameters, its okay was klo 4.2GHz - 4.6GHz, but on top of that seemed to stun large enough and we need presisikan manual. In my opinion.

• CPU Multi: 50x


• Internal PLL: Enabled (must be enabled on CPU batch ane have, if mo above 4.8GHz, can update the BIOS if this option is missing


• Intel Speedstep: ane like a flame, let him downclock klo idle and power-saving purpose
  Turbo Boost Power Limiter = MANUAL, for scaling performance is not dilimit TDP (W), the Power Limit needs to be opened from the default is 100 so to number 280 (long) and 250 (short) ... / / ... Intel story TDP apply extra restrictions on Sandy Bridge and if we run the system exceeds the max Intel's TDP (95W) then the performance will be throttling and no scaling, so recommendations from my trial, so long and short_nya setiing


• Spread Spectrum: DISABLE, if enabled will hamper overclocking and reduce Bclk from 100 to 99.8 in Windows for the purpose of reducing the radiation electric

RAM that I use is old Ripjaws, 4GBRH rating 2000 9-9-9-27 1.65V. Because at P67 only option to overclock the RAM divider 1600-1866-2133, then by all means select 1866. Elpida chipset RAM uses a character difficult BBSE stable in Sandy Bridge divider 2133, the difference with the new X-Ripjaws using PSC chipset that is designed to Sandy Bridge. So make mas bro got RAM BBSE not removed, can we maximize this with tight timings ... / / ... more stringent than what can be achieved by the PSC. Setting flat 8-8-8 timings with 1.65V just stun below is for this memory.

Energy Saving: Disable, Hohoho
CPU Core Voltage there are 3 that is AUTO (automatically added by the Fatal1ty CPU clock when the high street), Offset (VID shifting processor, still with Vdrop spec from Intel), and Manual (set a fixed number of V as desired * advanced) ... / / ... for daily purpose because I tend to like to offset the time he could downvolt setrumnya idle power-saving course but it took a long time especially to know which processor VID karasteristik dipake ... //... to verify fixed benching extreme clock just because they are more comfortable manual
CPU Load-line Calibration: The goal is to remove VDrop, there are 5 levels and the order from lowest to HIGHEST = Level 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ... / / ... using level 4 or 3 alone, does not like to level 1 and 2 which in addition to deleting VDrop also even add to stun even higher
DRAM Voltage: instinct
PCH Voltage: AUTO
PLL Voltage: 1.6V me down so it was let ademan bit processor, yet V is not too useful in Sandy Bridge is so (over) Internal PLL ON
VTT Voltage: naikin sediikiit course, because we make the RAM divider 1866 and IMC (internal memory controller) needs to stun again a reasonable intake
VCSA Voltage: AUTO, System Agent can be added if you also overclock the VGA SLI / CF

Stability


5GHz CPU, RAM DDR3 1866 8-8-8, pass Linx short time (CPU heater) and make sure my memory is very stable with 200% pass memtest. Nice BBSE in divider 1866 isn't it?