ASRock’s booth at Computex 2013 year showed off their upcoming Z87 Extreme 11/ac motherboard and it has been filled to the brim with insanity.
As the third most popular motherboard manufacturer on the planet, its main aim is to kick ASUS out of the top spot. How does one do that? You go full on nerd, that’s how.
And you never go full on nerd if you can’t take the heat.
The Z87 Extreme 11/ac is an unannounced board from the company based on Intel’s new Haswell family of processors. It comes with sixteen SAS3 ports and an additional six SATA 6GB/s ports, can fit in four dual-slot graphics cards (the stand used AMD Radeon HD7970 cards) and supports up to 64GB of DDR3 RAM at speeds of 1,600MHz.
Excess, especially with something as gorgeous as this, isn’t always a bad thing. The SSDs offered 256GB of storage each for a total of 5.6TB of unformatted storage. They sadly weren’t in RAID, but the idea of that much speed is enticing.
Also shown in the picture, but not yet announced, is the Wi-SD box. ASRock will market and sell this as an extra accessory for other boards but will apparently include it in with the Extreme 11/ac/s bundle. It a 3.5-inch front panel header that houses the board’s built-in WiFi and Bluetooth antennae as well as a few USB 3.0 ports and a multi-format card reader.
ASRock is likely to announce the board in the coming week. Computex officially closes its doors on Saturday evening on 8 June 2013.
Source: TechpowerUp
More Hardware news:
Massive Antec Nineteen Hundred pushes drive bay boundaries
MSI Haswell ITX motherboards revealed
Intel Haswell CPU: SA pricing and availability
