FM2A88X Extreme4+ CrossFireX™, Dual graphics, Triple monitor and HD 8000/7000 series graphics. Definitely eye candy! | |||||||||||||
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Features Home Cloud - Remote Desktop Anytime, Anywhere This motherboard supports Security Wake On Internet Technology with the onboard Qualcomm® Atheros® LAN, so you can connect with your PC from anywhere in the world. You will be able to power your PC on or turn it off, monitor and take control of it remotely with another smartphone, tablet or computer. Imagine yourself as a desperado riding into the sunset, an outcast of the society exiled from your country, or simply at the groceries two blocks away from home. You miss your personal computer so much and you'll need Home Cloud for the following real world scenarios: Mail Keep your stored mail near at hand whenever you need it.Multimedia Stream your secret stash of vids, music and pics.TV Watch your favorite local TV programs by connecting to your PC.Documents Access or send files remotely anywhere.Monitor Keep an eye on your pets or children when you are away from home.FM2/FM2+ APU Support This motherboard is compatible with both AMD FM2 and FM2+ APUs. Please note that some new features may be only supported by FM2+ APUs. DuraCap This motherboard uses ASRock DuraCaps that are 100% made in Japan. These special capacitors feature an all solid high quality conductive polymer design that brings ultra stable performance and long lasting durability to up to 2.5 times longer lifespan. Next-Gen PCI-E 3.0 Support This ASRock motherboard supports the Next-Gen PCI-E 3.0! PCI Express 3.0 can maximize the bandwidth of the next-gen PCI Express 3.0 VGA cards, thus providing ultimate graphics performance. Get PCI-E 3.0 Benefits • Higher bit rate - 8.0GT/s • Higher bandwidth per lane - 1GB/s • Higher efficiency - 98.5% encoding efficiency • 100% backward compatible with previous PCI-E 2.0 / 1.0 standard
Note: PCI-E 3.0 supported with FM2+ APUs A-Tuning A-Tuning is ASRock's multi purpose software suite with a new interface, more new features and improved utilities, including EZ OC, Auto Tuning, Xfast 555, OC Tweaker, System Browser, Live Update, Tech Service and a whole lot more! TI® NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier Whoever said that PC's cannot provide decent audio is wrong. Never give in to bad audio quality. Premium Headset Amplifier is what all headphiles been longing for on a PC! It uses TI® NE5532 amplifiers which can deliver high definition audio for up to 600 ohm professional headphones. Triple Monitor Graphics, graphics and even more graphics! You've demanded for more eye candy, so this motherboard supports Triple Monitor. You may choose up to three display interfaces from the rear i/o to connect monitors and use them simultaneously without installing another graphics card. X-Boost Brilliantly designed for smart overclocking, ASRock X-Boost Technology is able to unleash the hidden power of your CPUs. Simply press “X” when turning on the PC, X-Boost will automatically overclock the relative components to get up to 15.77% performance boost! With the smart X-Boost, overclocking CPU can become a near one-button process.
AMD Steady Video™ 2.0 Bringing the best video experience! Compared to v1.0, AMD Steady Video 2.0 provides more tech advances such as Letter/Pillar Boxed Content, Indicator Overlay, Enhanced Algorithm Effectiveness, etc. Fully Optimize Memory Usage Faster Internet Access Boosts up your USB speed 5X Faster for Photoshop Execution XFast RAM will create a virtual disk from the system memory to boost the performance. For Photoshop, It can even perform 5X faster than before. Lower Latency In Game XFast LAN can lower latency in the game after setting online game priority higher. Time latency in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm * Lower is better USB Performance Comparison ATTO Disk Benchmark 4K Read ASRock Motherboard Other Motherboard *The performance boost percentage may vary with a different configuration. FAN-Tastic Tuning Configure different fan speeds for respective temperatures using the graph. The fans will automatically shift to the next speed level when the assigned temperature is met. USB Key In a world where time is money, why waste precious time everyday typing usernames to log in to Windows? Why should we even bother memorizing those foot long passwords? Nobody has time for that! Just plug in the USB Key and let your computer log in to windows automatically! UEFI Tech Service Contact ASRock Tech Service by sending a support request from the UEFI setup utility if you are having trouble with your personal computer. Users may try to choose the category of the issue they have encountered, describe the problem in detail, and then attach an optional picture or log file for our technical support team. Easy Driver Installer For users that don’t have an optical disk drive to install the drivers from our support CD, Easy Driver Installer is a handy tool in the UEFI that installs the LAN driver to your system via an USB storage device, then downloads and installs the other required drivers automatically through the internet. Completely no CD or optical disk drive required! Restart to UEFI Fast Boot is so fast that it is impossible for users to enter the UEFI setup utility during POST. Therefore, ASRock Restart to UEFI technology allows users to easily enter the UEFI setup utility automatically when turning on the PC next time. It is designed for those who constantly need to enter the UEFI setup utility. UEFI System Browser UEFI system browser is a useful tool included in ASRock's graphical UEFI. It can detect the devices and configurations that users are currently using on their motherboard. With UEFI system browser, you can easily examine the current system configuration in the UEFI setup without having to open the chassis and take everything apart. OMG Limit and control your children's time spent on the internet. ASRock OMG (Online Management Guard) technology allows you to establish an internet curfew or restrict internet access at specified times. Administrators are able to schedule the starting and ending hours of internet access granted to other users. Interactive UEFI Some people might complain that the BIOS configuration on old computers aren't user friendly enough. Well, not any more! ASRock Interactive UEFI is a blend of system configuration tools with cool sound effects and stunning visuals. The unprecedented UEFI provides a more attractive interface and brings a lot more amusement. Easy RAID Installer Easy RAID Installer can help you install the RAID driver easily without floppy drive. It can copy the RAID driver from a support CD to your USB storage device with just one simple click in UEFI setup. HDMI™ (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) This motherboard supports HDMI™ (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) which is an interface standard for transferring uncompressed video data and delivering multi-channel audio through a single cable. Both video and audio data signals transferred through the HDMI™ interface are digital without being converted into analog, therefore it delivers the richest pictures and the most realistic sounds. |
Product Specifications
General | |
A-Style | - Home Cloud |
CPU | - Supports Socket FM2+ 95W / FM2 100W processors - 4 + 2 Power Phase design |
Chipset | - AMD A88X (Bolton-D4) |
Memory | - Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Technology - 4 x DDR3 DIMM Slots - Supports DDR3 2600+(OC)/2400(OC)/2133/1866/1600/1333/1066 non-ECC, un-buffered memory *DDR3 2600+ is only supported with two DIMMs. - Max. capacity of system memory: 64GB* - Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 1.3 / 1.2 - Supports AMD Memory Profile (AMP) *Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows® 32-bit OS. For Windows® 64-bit OS with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation. |
BIOS | - 64Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with GUI support - Supports "Plug and Play" - ACPI 1.1 Compliant wake up events - Supports jumperfree - SMBIOS 2.3.1 support - DRAM, VDDP, VDDR Voltage multi-adjustment |
Audio, Video and Networking | |
Graphics | - Integrated AMD Radeon HD 8000/7000 series graphics in A-series APU - DirectX 11.1, Pixel Shader 5.6 with FM2+ CPU. DirectX 11, Pixel Shader 5.0 with FM2 CPU. - Max. shared memory 2GB - Multi VGA Output options: D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI Ports - Supports Triple Monitor - Supports HDMI Technology with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz - Supports Dual-link DVI-D with max. resolution up to 2560x1600 @ 60Hz - Supports D-Sub with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz - Supports Auto Lip Sync, Deep Color (12bpc), xvYCC and HBR (High Bit Rate Audio) with HDMI Port (Compliant HDMI monitor is required) - Supports Blu-ray Stereoscopic 3D with HDMI Port - Supports AMD Steady Video™ 2.0: New video post processing capability for automatic jitter reduction on home/online video - Supports HDCP with DVI-D and HDMI Ports - Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) playback with DVI-D and HDMI Ports |
Audio | - 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec) - Premium Blu-ray Audio support - TI NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier (Supports up to 600 ohm headsets) |
LAN | - PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s - Qualcomm Atheros AR8171 - Supports Qualcomm Atheros Security Wake On Internet Technology - Supports Wake-On-LAN - Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az - Supports PXE |
Expansion / Connectivity | |
Slots | - 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slot (PCIE2 @ x16 mode) - 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 Slot (PCIE4 @ x4 mode) - 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 Slots - 3 x PCI Slots - Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, CrossFireX™ and Dual Graphics *PCIE 3.0 is only supported with FM2+ CPU. With FM2 CPU, it only supports PCIE 2.0. |
Storage | - 7 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug |
Connector | - 1 x IR Header - 1 x COM Port Header - 1 x Chassis Intrusion Header - 1 x TPM Header - 1 x Power LED Header - 2 x CPU Fan Connectors (1 x 4-pin, 1 x 3-pin) - 3 x Chassis Fan Connectors (1 x 4-pin, 2 x 3-pin) - 1 x Power Fan Connector (3-pin) - 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector - 1 x 8 pin 12V Power Connector - 1 x Front Panel Audio Connector - 3 x USB 2.0 Headers (Support 6 USB 2.0 ports) - 1 x USB 3.0 Header by AMD A88X (Bolton-D4) (Supports 2 USB 3.0 ports) |
Rear Panel I/O | - 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port - 1 x D-Sub Port - 1 x DVI-D Port - 1 x HDMI Port - 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port - 2 x USB 2.0 Ports - 1 x eSATA Connector - 2 x USB 3.0 Ports (AMD A88X (Bolton-D4)) - 4 x USB 3.0 Ports (Etron EJ188) - 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED) - 1 x Clear CMOS Switch with LED - HD Audio Jacks: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone |
Other Features / Miscellaneous | |
Unique Feature | - ASRock A-Tuning - ASRock Instant Boot - ASRock Instant Flash - ASRock APP Charger - ASRock XFast USB - ASRock XFast LAN - ASRock XFast RAM - ASRock Crashless BIOS - ASRock OMG (Online Management Guard) - ASRock Internet Flash - ASRock UEFI System Browser - ASRock UEFI Tech Service - ASRock On/Off Play Technology - ASRock Dehumidifier Function - ASRock Easy RAID Installer - ASRock Easy Driver Installer - ASRock Interactive UEFI - ASRock Fast Boot - ASRock X-Boost - ASRock Restart to UEFI - ASRock USB Key - ASRock FAN-Tastic Tuning - Hybrid Booster: - ASRock U-COP |
Support CD | - Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version), CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 Trial, Google Chrome Browser and Toolbar, Start8 (30 days trial) |
Accessories | - Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield - 4 x SATA Data Cables |
Hardware Monitor | - CPU temperature sensing - Chassis temperature sensing - CPU Fan Tachometer - Chassis Fan Tachometer - CPU/Chassis Quiet Fan - CPU/Chassis Fan multi-speed control - CASE OPEN detection - Voltage monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, Vcore |
Form Factor | - ATX Form Factor - ASRock DuraCap (2.5 x longer life time) (100% Japan-made high-quality conductive polymer capacitors) |
OS | - Microsoft® Windows® 8.1 32-bit / 8.1 64-bit / 8 32-bit / 8 64-bit / 7 32-bit / 7 64-bit / XP 32-bit |
Certifications | - FCC, CE, WHQL - ErP/EuP ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required) |
*The specification is subject to change without notice in advance. The brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Any configuration other than original product specification is not guaranteed.