ASRock X48 TurboTwins-WiFi Motherboard
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"...The ASRock X48TurboTwins-WiFi+AP may not appeal to the hardcore extreme enthusiast, but for the rest of us mainstream user it's near perfect and offers great value for money."
ASRock X48 TurboTwins-WiFi
Manufacturer
ASRock
Category
Motherboard
Socket
Socket 775 LGA
Chipset
Intel X48 - DDR2 / DDR3
Editor
Winston Chim
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Introduction
Intel's X48 chipsets are not only just for the enthusiasts. ASRock have the X48 TurboTwins-WiFi supporting both DDR2 and DDR3 ram.
INTRODUCTION
Asrock have taken that one step further towards becoming an established mainstream player. They're now offering an extensive range of affordable motherboards for both socket AM/AM2 and socket 775 processors. What's more, in recent months Adata have made their products a little more attractive to the mainstream user by including extras like onboard wifi on some of their motherboards. And on their recently launched AMD 780G board, which we reviewed last week, they've included a DisplayPort interface supporting HD output ... It's one of industry's first for all-in-one motherboard. So you can see, Asrock have made that extra effort in trying capture that all important mainstream market. Fair play to Asrock have been trying.
The X48 has already proven to be a very capable chipset, and it's good to see Asrock starting to use the high-end X48 chipset on their mainstream boards.
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Gone is the notion that ASRock is just an ordinary 3rd-Tier manufacturer who produce cheap budget motherboards, using cheaper 3rd party chipsets from VIA and SiS. Yes, they still do use these chipsets, but they’ve moved on … and now include higher end chipsets like the Intel X48 within they product range. What this means, is that consumers can enjoy no compromise performance at affordable prices.
Gone is the notion that ASRock is just an ordinary 3rd-Tier manufacturer who produce cheap budget motherboards, using cheaper 3rd party chipsets from VIA and SiS. Yes, they still do use these chipsets, but they’ve moved on … and now include higher end chipsets like the Intel X48 within they product range. What this means, is that consumers can enjoy no compromise performance at affordable prices.
Gone is the notion that ASRock is just an ordinary 3rd-Tier manufacturer who produce cheap budget motherboards, using cheaper 3rd party chipsets from VIA and SiS. Yes, they still do use these chipsets, but they’ve moved on … and now include higher end chipsets like the Intel X48 within they product range. What this means, is that consumers can enjoy no compromise performance at affordable prices.
In this review we'll be taking a look at their latest motherboard, the X48TurboTwins. This motherboard utilises Intel's X48 chipset, and supports 1600FSB, as well all Intel socket 775 processors. It also includes an onboard wifi card with dongle, eSATA and DIMM slots for both DDR2 and DDR3 ram. At first glance, the board does look a little plain and boring. There's no special heatpipe cooler for the chipset or mosfets, nor are there "easy access" switches for reset and power-on. Just from these two points I've mentioned, you'll instantly know that this motherboard isn't really designed for the hardcore extreme enthusiast. It's more aimed at the mainstream user who wants to utilise the lastest X48 chipset from Intel.
We're not expecting this motherboard to beat the big brand offerings from the likes of Asus, Gigabyte or MSI. However, I am expecting stability and we'll be testing the overclocking ability of the board. For our tests, we'll be using an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ default 2.4Ghz, OCZ DDR2-1066 SLI-Ready 2Gb Kit, a Radeon HD3870 512MB DDR4, PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 860W PSU and a 19" Dell Ultrascan P990 monitor.
Ok, let's not waste any more time and take a closer look at the ASRock X48TurboTwins WiFi+AP motherboard.
