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.
Metro2033
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Dirt 3
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Homeles - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
Unfortunately for your pretentious argument, 13 year old kids wouldn't even know who the hell Fatal1ty is.Beenthere - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
It doesn't matter who he is, what matters is that 13 year olds (of all ages), THINK he's important and thus they must have the products he endorses.I'm not rsentful at all, I'm educated and not a gullible sheep. I find it amazing the sheeple buy into this stupid marketing crap. It's like the majority of people were born braindead...
Samus - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
u mad, bro?CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - link
He's an angry gullible sheep that is spewing the PC correct line of hatred toward "marketing" by a "corp".What is sickening is listening to the whining PC pure sheep who don't realize they are shorned and shunned for being so stupid, themselves.
Iketh - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
unfortunately, your rant is just as childish... you only come across as resentfulas for me, I also hate the Fatality branding, but that's because I feel queer every time I have to look at him looking back at me so seductively...
DigitalFreak - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
Faetal1tycmdrdredd - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
I much prefer the Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) branding and theme. It's generic, and actually has a solid lineup that is worth the premium over the standard lineup. The Asrock Fatality brand IMO adds lots of bells and whistles that add nothing to the product that screams "worth it".bigboxes - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
You share a lot of clueless opinion on this site. 13-year olds can't afford these mobos. Don't like it? Don't buy it. There, was that so hard?N4g4rok - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
FINISH HIM.Exodite - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
My takeaway from this is that we need more famous electrical engineers.I'd gladly buy a name-branded motherboard from someone with l33t tracing skills and a good eye for component selection.