ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional Review - PAGE 1

The Fatal1ty brand has become quite popular with gamers over the years thanks to pedigree behind pro gamer Jonathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendell, and ASRock has now taken the series and brought it to their latest P67-based motherboard. The board is dubbed the ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional, which in keeping with the Fatal1ty theme sports a red and black design and uses high quality components such as premium gold capacitors, a very robust heatsink and utilizes the new UEFI BIOS.

The ASRock Fatal1ty motherboard is designed for gamers and as such supports an impressive feature set for this segment of the market. The board supports 3-way CrossFireX and SLI, includes a customizable Fatal1ty Mouse Port, has Dual LAN ports with Teaming functions and even has an on-board THX TruStudio PRO controller. All these features should help the Fatal1ty motherboard stand out in the gaming market and at $225.99, it is still reasonably priced considering all that’s included.

In addition to the gaming features, the Fatal1ty motherboard should also have an impressive overclocking ceiling through its use of quality parts. Throughout the motherboard ASRock uses all solid capacitors, but they have also included an Advanced V16 + 2 power phase design with a digital PWM. This allows the Vcore voltage to be more efficiently and smoothly delivered to the CPU, thus improving the overall efficiency and overclocking potential.

The ASRock Fatal1ty motherboard, from a design and feature set stand-point, appears to be an exceptional product. However, the real indicator of a successful motherboard design lies not just with these aspects, but also in the overall performance level. In this review we will be comparing the ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional motherboard to other products based on the P67 Express chipset to see if it can distinguish itself from competing offerings on the market.