In addition to the major manufacturers Asus, Gigabyte and MSI, also showed the smaller manufacturers in their line-up of motherboards for Intel’s next generation processors. As was also Asrock at Cebit are a selection of Ivy Bridge motherboards.
Asrock came with two flagship products for the trading floor. For the X79 platform showed its Extreme11 motherboard, and for the next generation socket lga1155 processors, the Z77 Extreme9 is the flagship model forms. The Extreme11 is suitable for Sandy Bridge E-processors and has a whopping seven pci-express-x16-slots with pci-express 3.0 support. Also, it is a sas controller is present, as are two gigabitnetwerkcontrollers and a Sound Core3D-chip works.
The Z77 Extreme9 variant should be with five pci-express x16 slots and a single x1 slot. However, two gigabitnetwerkcontrollers of Broadcom, and the board has up to twelve usb 3.0 ports. There are six sata-600 connectors and four sata-300 ports. It is also a wi-fi adapter on board, just like a 7.-kanaalsgeluidcontroller. The Extreme6 is a little easier, for example, with only two x16 slots and less usb 3.0 ports. The Z77 Extreme4-M is below that and is a matx board.
Asrocks Z77E-ITX deserves a special mention. The only 17-by-17-centimetre-tall sign is an x16 and x1 slot, and six usb 3.0 ports on board, as well as two sata-600 and two sata-300 ports.