ASROCK X58 Extreme3 User manual

Detail Specification
Product Brief
CPU
Memory
Expansion Slot
Audio
LAN
Rear Panel I/O
Connector
SATA3
USB 3.0
BIOS Feature
Smart Switch
Support CD
Accessories
Hardware Monitor
OS
Certifications
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respective companies. Any configuration other than original product specification is not guaranteed.
Chipset
Platform
- Supports the Core i7 980X 6-Core CPU
- ASRock DuraCap (2.5 x longer life time),
100% Japan-made high-quality Conductive
Polymer Capacitors
- Advanced V8 Power Phase Design
- Supports Triple Channel DDR3 2000 (OC)
- Supports ATI™ CrossFireX™ and
Quad CrossFireX™
- Supports NVIDIA
®
Quad SLI™ and SLI™
- 1 x Powered eSATAIII/USB Connector,
2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connector, 2 x USB 3.0 Ports
- ErP/EuP Ready, Dr. Debug
- Smart Swith Design : Power / Reset / Clear
CMOS Switch with LED
- Supports ASRock Instant Boot, Instant Flash,
OC DNA, Multi-Speed Fan Control, OC Tuner,
IES, Good Night LED
- 7.1 CH HD Audio (VT2020 Audio Codec with
QSound), SRN 110dB & Premium Blu-ray audio
support
- Free Bundle: CyberLink DVD Suite - OEM and
Trial; Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi MB - Trial
- 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)
- Intel®Socket 1366 Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition /
Core™ i7 Processor Supports Intel®Dynamic Speed
Technology
- System Bus up to 6400 MT/s; Intel®QuickPath
Interconnect
- Advanced V8 Power Phase Design
- Supports Hyper-Threading Technology
- Supports Untied Overclocking Technology
- Supports EM64T CPU
- Northbridge: Intel®X58
- Southbridge: Intel®ICH10R
- Dual Channel DDR3 memory technology
- 6 x DDR3 DIMM slots
- Supports DDR3 2000(OC)/1866(OC)/1600(OC)/1333
(OC)/1066 non-ECC, un-buffered memory
- Supports DDR3 ECC, un-buffered memory with Intel®
Workstation 1S Xeon®processors 3500 series
- Max. capacity of system memory: 24GB
- Supports Intel®Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)
- 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (blue @ x16 mode)
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot (white @ x4 mode)
(Double-wide slot spacing between each PCI-E slot)
- 1 x PCI Express x1 slot
- 2 x PCI slots
- Supports ATITM CrossFireXTM and Quad CrossFireXTM
- Supports NVIDIA®SLITM and Quad SLITM
- 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection
- DAC with 110dB dynamic range (VIA®VT2020 Audio Codec)
- Premium Blu-ray audio support
- PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
- Realtek RTL8111DL
- Supports Wake-On-LAN
I/O Panel
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port
- 1 x Coaxial SPDIF Out Port
- 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
- 5 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports
- 1 x Powered eSATAIII/USB 2.0 Connector
- 2 x Ready-to-Use USB 3.0 Ports
- 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
- 1 x IEEE 1394 Port
- 1 x Clear CMOS Switch with LED
- HD Audio Jack: Side Speaker / Rear Speaker / Central /
Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone
- 6 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel®Matrix Storage), NCQ, AHCI and Hot
Plug functions
- 2 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 TPM header
- 1 x Chassis Intrusion header
- 1 x Power LED header
- CPU/Chassis/NB/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 Dr. Debug (7-Segment Debug LED)
- 8Mb AMI Legal BIOS
- Supports "Plug and Play"
- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events
- Supports jumperfree
- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support
- CPU, VCCM, IOH, ICH, VTT, IOH/ICH PCIE, CPU PLL, IOH
CSI, VCORE Voltage Multi-adjustment
- Supports I. O. T. (Intelligent Overclocking Technology)
- 1 x Power Switch with LED
- 1 x Reset Switch with LED
- 1 x Clear CMOS Switch with LED
- 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors by Marvell SE9128, support
hardware RAID (RAID 0 and RAID 1), NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug"
functions (SATA3_2 connector is shared with eSATA3 port)
- 2 x USB 3.0 ports by NEC MPD720200, support USB 1.0/2.0/3.0
up to 5Gb/s
- Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version),
ASRock Software Suite (CyberLink DVD Suite - OEM
and Trial; Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi MB - Trial)
- CPU Temperature Sensing
- Chassis Temperature Sensing
- CPU/Chassis/NB/Power Fan Tachometer
- CPU Quiet Fan
- CPU/Chassis Fan Multi-Speed Control
- CASE OPEN detection
- Voltage Monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Vcore
- Microsoft®Windows®7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit
/ XP / XP 64-bit compliant
- 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
- 4 x SATA Data Cables (Optional)
- 2 x SATA 1 to 1 Power Cables (Optional)
Intel®X58+ ICH10R Chipsets
Unique Feature
- ASRock OC Tuner
- Intelligent Energy Saver
- Instant Boot
- ASRock Instant Flash
- ASRock OC DNA
- Hybrid Booster:
- CPU Frequency Stepless Control
- ASRock U-COP
- Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G.)
- Good Night LED
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Stunning Data Transfer Speed
ASRock True 333
Stunning Data Transfer Speed
ASRock True 333
USB3.0, the world's best-known computer peripheral
interface once again receives a major revamp to stay current
with today’s most demands for connectivity bandwidth.
Delivering data transfer rates up to ten times faster than USB
2.0 with the optimized power efficiency, USB 3.0 promises a
major leap forward in transfer speeds and capability.
SATA3, the world’s fastest interface, enables to maximum
your hard disk drive performance. With the new SATA
Revision 3.0 technology, ASRock ensures you the incredible
data transfer rate up to 6Gb/s speed over SATA2.
eSATA3, the world’s only eSATA3 device connectivity.
ASRock True 333 series motherboards
can run the PCI-E for VGA card, SATA3
and USB 3.0 at full speed together at the
same time. However, other 333 series
motherboards can only run one of them
at full speed at one time.

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Set your ideal fan speed by tuning
the fan speed from level 1 to 10 in
BIOS or OC Tuner.
Smart Switch DesignSmart Switch Design
Clear CMOS Switch Power Switch Reset Switch
Secure your working environment!
TPM provides enhanced data
protection, security via high-level
encryption/decryption, and
platform integrity.
TPM support
TPM support
Trusted Platform Module
Dr. DebugDr. Debug
Dr. Debug helps you
to diagnose the BIOS
POST status of your
system.
Supports ATI™ CrossFireX™
and Quad CrossFireX™
Supports NVIDIA
®
Quad SLI
TM
and SLI
TM
Heatpipe with fan
design for CPU
power Mosfet
Supports the Core i7
980X 6-Core CPU

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Premium Blu-ray Audio
Premium Blu-ray Audio, an outstanding technology developed on ASRock motherboard, provides the excellent
audio output of 24-bit/192 kHz with its respective Blu-ray DRM compatible driver/software. With Content
Protection-Support and High SNR DAC, the Blu-ray entertainments can be played in a high quality of
24-bit/192KHz. In other words, if you are using a device without the Blu-ray Audio support, the audio quality will
be downgraded to 16-bit/48kHz like a regular CD quality. To deliver the best possible sound solution for today’s
most demanding users, ASRock Premium Blu-ray Audio motherboard is the best choice for users who are
particularly desired to enjoy the pure HD audio. ASRock users are able to take full advantages of our Blu-ray
Audio motherboards. Choose ASRock, choose Pure HD audio!
Why ASRock?
Benefits of ASRock Premium Blu-ray Audio motherboards !
* SNR: Signal-to-Noise Ratio.
* SNR: Signal-to-Noise Ratio.
ASRock Premium Blu-ray Audio motherboards Other motherboards
Content Protection Support
SNR* DAC
Audio Quality
Premium Blu-ray Audio Quality
(24-bit / 192 kHz)
Downgrade to
regular CD quality
(16-bit / 48 kHz)
High Low
Yes No
ErP/EuP Ready Motherboard ErP/EuP Ready Power Supply ErP/EuP System
What is ErP/EuP?
ErP/EuP, stands for Energy Using Product, was a provision regulated by European Union to define the power consumption for
the completed system. With the great quantity and the popularly using of the electrical products nowadays and the continuously
increasing of the electrical products categories in the following 20 to 30 years, European Union decided to establish an effective
strategy to solve the energy consumption problem. That is, according to ErP/EuP, the total AC power of the completed system
shall be under 1.00W in off mode condition.

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OC DNA
Save your OC settings as a profile and share with
friends. Try OC DNA now!
OC DNA Instruction
Step 1 Step 2
Step 3 Step 4
Save your BIOS OC settings as User Default in BIOS OC
Tweaker menu. (For example: we name this User Default setting
as “CPU_OC3.8GHz”)
Press “Save” button to save the “CPU_OC3.8GHz” OC settings as
a profile.
Execute ASRock OC DNA under OS, you will find
“CPU_OC3.8GHz” as User Profile 1.
Send the “CPU_OC3.8GHz” profile to other friends.
Step 5 Step 6
When the friend receives your “CPU_OC3.8GHz” profile, he can
press “Load” to load the “CPU_OC3.8GHz” profile in OC DNA.
After that, the friend can enter into BIOS OC Tweaker menu to
load the “CPU_OC3.8GHz” profile as his BIOS OC settings.
Now, you have successfully share your OC setting profile with your friends.
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*The OC DNA works only when users use the same motherboard and BIOS version.