ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion and X79 Professional Review: From a Gamer to Gamers
by Ian Cutress on February 9, 2013 10:30 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- ASRock
- Fatal1ty
- X79
The X79 Fatal1ty boards had some small issues related to gaming worth noting in this section. Starting with the Champion, it should be noted that the fourth PCIe slot would never engage in PCIe 3.0 – even when set in the BIOS, it would drop down to PCIe 2.0 x8 in the operating system. On the Professional, PCIe 2.0 was enabled by default, meaning all the results here were performed at PCIe 2.0. To make matters worse, every now and again the Professional would reduce one of the GPUs to PCIe 1.1, requiring a restart to bring it back up to speed. This is an unfortunate set of events for any gaming motherboard.
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CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - link
Yes, which he is not.He is a soft skinned, supple handed, soft spoken, slow and controlled quite kind wuss-a-moe.
AssBall - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - link
WTF? Slow work day for you? Someone pee in your Cheerios? Can't find a better board to troll? Go do something useful like electrocute yourself with your vibrator.jason_mcallister - Monday, February 11, 2013 - link
I have the Z77 version of this motherboard. It's pretty solid. I didn't buy it for the marketing but for the 10 SATA ports. ASROCK does support this MB well, I recently got a BIOS update and the website support page has recent drivers updates for windows 8. Yes the board is gimmicky but so what if it has the major features I'm looking for. It's not a bad looking board either.UltraTech79 - Monday, February 11, 2013 - link
I can't believe this BS brand is still trying. Who the hell buys this crap? Do they realize that the whole fatal1ty horseshit is making people NOT want to buy an otherwise nice board? make it stop.CeriseCogburn - Thursday, February 14, 2013 - link
All the little insane amd fanboys bought the amd crap because a PR fantasy mind bending half naked ho was on the video card...The double D knockers fan was another recent amd sexual sales tool, for the tools.
Don't expect most here to miss out being manipulated idiots, even if they caught on from the 1st post it was time to whine about fatal1ty like good little sheep.
Origin64 - Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - link
quote: One would also expect some form of network interface to reduce CPU consumption / prioritize gaming traffic, but rather than going the Atheros Killer route, ASRock use Broadcom NICs and software.I wouldn't expect it. Those cards do not offer increased performance over any other networking solution, but they do cost 100 bucks more. It's a scam designed to target people who think more expensive means more better.
Solix - Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - link
Please people, stop purchasing anything with this branding so:a) He can stop getting pointless cuts of the profits when as others point out he hasn't done anything particularly interesting
b) They will stop making this crap and put out real enthusiast boards
I'd like to actually purchase some of the upper end boards but I refuse to do based on marketing crap. If they want to brand it with someone I'd be more impressed with naming it after some awesome electrical engineer or circuit / cpu designer; heh.
lever_age - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - link
Hm, I think there are already a lot of "black edition" parts out there. Harold Black, inventer of the negative-feedback amplifier? heh.I don't know if you can count it as it's so far back and not really a branding, but Nvidia has some Tesla cards to sell you. And a lot of their code names are scientists of course.
So for circuits, Jack Kilby (Nobel prize for first integrated circuit), Bob Widlar (IC design, but analog). Plenty of names escape me at the moment.
For high-performance computing, let's start with Seymour Cray... wait a sec...
LoneWolf15 - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - link
For the Babality edition.JonnyDough - Friday, February 15, 2013 - link
Fatal1ty is one of the few gamers out there who isn't obese and smoke a lot of pot. LOL That's why he's made his millions.