Asus a realizat un overkill de placa de baza in jurul chipsetului Intel X58. Acesta placa de baza are sapte ( da 7) sloturi PCI-Express, patru din ele merg la x16, iar trei doar la x8. Deci teoretic am putea conecta 7 placi video. Daca Nvidia sunt limitate la 3 datorita conectorului SLI, la ATI nu vad nici o retinere in acest sens.
Pe langa cele sapte sloturi PCI-E, aceasta placa de baza mai are si 6 sloturi DDR3 care suporta pana la 24 GB de memorie RAM, sase mufe S-ATA, doua mufe SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), si o placa de sunet 7.1.
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ASRock a luansat o noua placa de baza pentru Intel Core i7, X58 SuperComputer. Partea cea mai interesanta, suporta Quad CrossFire si 3 way SLI, pe cand unele placi de baza de la Gigabyte nici macar SLI nu suporta.

Specificatii ASRock X58 SuperComputer :

CPU – 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
- Supports Hyper-Threading Technology
- Supports Untied Overclocking Technology
- Supports EM64T CPU
Chipset – Northbridge: Intel® X58
- Southbridge: Intel® ICH10R
Memory – Triple 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, buffered memory with Intel® Workstation 1S Xeon® processors 3500 series
- Max. capacity of system memory: 24GB
- Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)