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Closer Look
Firstly we will just take a quick look at everything that comes inside the box. In this picture we can now see the motherboard along with all the accessories and manuals we showed you in our packaging picture.
Between the top two PCI-E x16 lanes we can see ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer branding as well as logos to let us know the board supports both NVIDIA SLI and AMD CROFFSIRE. You will also notice an image boasting the Killer E2200 Gigabit Lan and can even see to the right the M.2 expansion slot albeit a bit blurry (My fault).
The motherboard features Premium Gold Caps that are 100% made in Japan. These will help to insure the motherboard will give us the best performance and maximum longevity possible.
Another feature that will help to ensure you are getting maximum performance is the addition of an extra 4pin molex connector. The purpose of this is to give a bit of extra power to the PCI-E lanes when using SLI or CROSSFIRE GPUs to help ensure stable performance and better overclocks.
There are 5 SATA 3 6.0 Gb/s that also offer support for a number of different RAID arrays.
Something I found unique was the included vertical USB3 port right on the motherboard. This would allow you to plug any USB3 powered device directly into your motherboard and store it inside your case. You will also notice the front panel USB3 headers in this photo.
We of course have our 4 x DDR3 DIMM slots that can handle up to 64GB RAM at 2450MHz(OC) and of course support AMP and Intel XMP 1.3/1.2 memory profiles.
Here we can see our CPU socket and retention brackets. Nothing to special here but they are both in black to match the boards PCB nicely.
One thing that I wish I had got the chance to use was the M.2 Socket 3 Expansion slot. This supports M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s modules and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen2 x2 that supports speeds up to a blistering fast 10GB/s!
On the rear I/O panel we find a number of ports that we have quite accustomed to over the years, especially with high-end motherboards. We have the PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports, optical SPDIF out, 5x USB2.0 ports, 1x Fatal1ty mouse port(USB2.0), 4x USB3.0 ports (ASMedia Hub), 1x eSATA3 connector, 1x RJ-45 Lan Port and of course our HD Audio Jacks that include inputs for; rear speakers, central, bass, line in, front speaker and a microphone.
I have the same ram mentioned above. But I’m having problems the ram won’t work by itself but if I add a stock of my dad’s corsair vengeance it registers all the sticks. If I don’t have this plugged in my computer won’t even start. I’ve tried single channel with each stick but neither work by themselves. Any idea on how to fix this?
R934g2130u1s. I’ve been trying to fix this for over a month.