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ASRock’s X99 Extreme11 with SAS3 12Gb/s Ports

Published: Oct 17,2014

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ASRock X99 Extreme11, a monstrous LGA 2011-3 motherboard that holds a total of 18 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s ports, including ten ports that are provided by Intel’s X99 chipset, and the other eight ports SAS3 12.0 Gb/s or SATA3 made possible by an added LSI SAS 3008 controller chip. With a couple of SSDs, ASRock’s testing lab reached a ludicrous file transfer speed of 6.1 GB/s.

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This flagship motherboard is designed to make power hungry hardware enthusiasts drool all over the place. Built around Intel’s latest X99 chipset, X99 Extreme11 supports Intel’s Haswell-E Core i7 as well as Xeon processors, so it is also ideal for making a storage happy workstation or small server system.

X99 Extreme11 is first class of ASRock’s Super Alloy series motherboards. Along with the Super Alloy features and the 10 SATA3 plus 8 SAS3 ports, there’s actually even two more Ultra M.2 PCIe Gen3 x4 32Gb/s slots hidden between the PCIe slots.

Speaking of which, there are five PCIe Gen 3.0 x16 slots backed up by two PLX PEX 8747 bridge chips to support 4-Way SLI/CrossFireX in x16/x16/x16/x16 mode! Furthermore, the most optimized 12 power phase design for the best performance/power efficiency.

And not to forget, support for the latest DDR4 ECC and UDIMM/RDIMM memory modules with up to 128 GB capacity and speeds up to DDR4 3400+(OC).

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