Monday, August 1, 2011

ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard Review

ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard Review
With Intel’s introduction of ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard second generation Core processors the main chipsets you have been hearing in this area and we have been covering are the P67, H67 and Z68.  These chipsets are the mainstream and enthusiasts chipsets that give you everything you would ever want on a motherboard, but what if you are trying to save money? Or just build a austere machine?  ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard has you covered with the ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard.  This board is of course based on the Intel H61 Express Chipset.  This board facial appearance USB 3.0 connectivity, Graphical UEFI BIOS, and help for Intel’s second generation processors.  Let’s try out it out!
Unique thankfulness to ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard for providing us with the H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard to assess.
Facial appearance
- 100% All Levelheaded Capacitor design
- Chains Intel® K-Series CPU
- Chains Dual Channel DDR3 1333
- Chains Intel® HD Graphics 2000/3000
- Multi VGA Productivity options: D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI
- 2 x USB 3.0, 2 x SATA3
- Chains XFast USB, AXTU, Graphical UEFI, Second Boot, Second Sparkle, APP Charger, SmartView
- Combo Cooler Choice (C.C.O.)
Packaging
The ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard comes in a austere motherboard box.  This one is a modest uncommon, instead of being covered with a ton of in rank all it has on the front is the H61iCafe logo.  The back of the box is where you will find most of the in rank on the board.

ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard
Notch the box up everything is nicely packed inside.  Getting it all out you have the ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard, 2 SATA cables, I/O shield, quick installation handbook, driver and software CD.
Specifications
All-function
CPU - Chains 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 / i5 / i3 in LGA1155 Package
- 4 + 1 Power Phase Design
- Chains Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Equipment
- Chains Intel® K-Series CPU
- Chains Hyper-Threading Equipment
Chipset - Intel® H61
Reminiscence - Dual Channel DDR3 reminiscence equipment
- 4 x DDR3 DIMM slots*
- Chains DDR3 1333/1066 non-ECC, un-buffered reminiscence
- Max. room of logic reminiscence: 16GB**  *Before you bed in reminiscence module on this motherboard, delight read not more than message to avoid any inappropriate installation:
» Due to chipset limitation, if you plot to bed in three or fourmemory modules on this motherboard, delight bed in only release-sidedmemory modules.
» To bed in two reminiscence modules on this motherboard, delight bed in them on DDR3_A1 and DDR3_B1 DIMM sockets.
For the fussy installation in rank, delight give up to the user manual or quick installation handbook.
**Due to the in commission logic limitation, the actual reminiscence size may be less than 4GB for the reservation for logic treatment under Windows® 32-bit OS. For Windows® 64-bit OS with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation.
BIOS - 32Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with GUI help
- Chains “Plug and Play”
- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Actions
- Chains jumperfree
- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Help
- IGPU, DRAM, PCH, CPU PLL, VTT, VCCSA Voltage Multi-adjustment
Audio, Record and Networking
Graphics - Chains Intel® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals : Intel® Quick Sync Record, Intel® InTru™ 3D, Intel® Clear Record HD Equipment, Intel® HD Graphics 2000/3000, Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
- Pixel Shader 4.1, DirectX 10.1
- Max. shared reminiscence 1759MB
- Multi VGA Productivity options: D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI
- Chains HDMI 1.4a Equipment with max. resolution up to 1920×1200 @ 60Hz
- Chains DVI with max. resolution up to 1920×1200 @ 60Hz
- Chains D-Sub with max. resolution up to 2048×1536 @ 75Hz
- Chains Auto Lip Sync, Deep Color (12bpc), xvYCC and HBR (High Bit Rate Audio) with HDMI (Amenable HDMI mind is required)
- Chains HDCP gathering with DVI and HDMI ports
- Chains Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) / HD-DVD playback with DVI and HDMI ports  *Due to chipset limitation, the Blu-ray playback of Intel® HD Graphics is only supported under Windows® Vista™ and Windows® 7.
**Intel® InTru™ 3D is only supported under Windows® 7 and Windows® 7 x64.
Audio - 7.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC887 Audio Codec)
LAN - PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
- Atheros® AR8151
- Chains Wake-On-LAN
- Chains PXE
Additional room / Connectivity
Slots - 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot (blue @ x16 mode)
- 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots
- 2 x PCI slots
SATA3 - 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors by ASMedia ASM1061, help NCQ, AHCI and “Hot Plug” functions
USB 3.0 - 2 x USB 3.0 ports by ASMedia ASM1042, help USB 1.0/2.0/3.0 up to 5Gb/s
Connector - 4 x SATA2 3.0 Gb/s connectors, help NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions
- 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors
- 1 x IR slogan
- 1 x COM port slogan
- 1 x HDMI_SPDIF slogan
- CPU/Chassis/Power FAN connector
- 24 pin ATX power connector
- 8 pin 12V power connector
- Front panel audio connector
- 2 x USB 2.0 headers (help 4 USB 2.0 ports)  *Delight prominent that AHCI mode is not supported under Windows® XP/XP 64bit OS.
Rear Panel I/O I/O Panel
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port
- 1 x VGA/D-Sub Port
- 1 x VGA/DVI-D Port
- 1 x HDMI Port
- 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
- 4 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports
- 2 x Ready-to-Use USB 3.0 Ports
- 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
- HD Audio Jack: Rear Lecturer / Inside / Bass / Line in / Front Lecturer / Microphone
Additional Facial appearance / Miscellaneous
Unique Map - ASRock Extreme Tuning Helpfulness (AXTU)
- Second Boot
- ASRock Second Sparkle
- ASRock AIWI
- ASRock APP Charger
- SmartView
- ASRock XFast USB
- Fusion Jab:
- ASRock U-COP
- Boot Failure Care for (B.F.G.)
- Combo Cooler Choice (C.C.O.)
- Excellent Nighttime LED
Help CD - Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Examination Version),
ASRock Software Suite (CyberLink DVD Suite – OEM and Examination; Creative Signal Blaster X-Fi MB – Examination)
Accessories - Quick Installation Handbook, Help CD, I/O Shield
- 2 x SATA Data Cables (optional)
Hardware Mind - CPU Like Sensing
- Chassis Like Sensing
- CPU/Chassis/Power Fan Tachometer
- CPU/Chassis Silent Fan (Allow Chassis Fan Speed Auto-Change by CPU Like)
- CPU/Chassis Fan Multi-Speed Control
- Voltage Monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Vcore
Form Factor - ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 8.6-in, 30.5 cm x 21.8 cm
- All Levelheaded Capacitor design
OS - Microsoft® Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista™ / Vista™ 64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit amenable
Certifications - FCC, CE, WHQL
- ErP/EuP Ready (ErP/EuP ready power give is required)


ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard

H61iCafe Overview
When I first heard the name ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard I honestly plotting ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard was going to be a mATX board, but this board is a normal ATX board.  Disparate many of the P67 and H67 boards, this board is less “busy” and does not have all that much to it.  ASRock has gone with a black PCB design with the accents on the board being blue and colorless.
ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard

ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard

Early up at the CPU socket the first business that spellbound my eye was how open it was.  There really is not that much surrounding it at all.  This is because ASRock is by a 4 + 1 power phase design.  In view of the fact that this is an H61 board there really is no need for a idiotic power design that you would see on additional aficionado boards.  ASRock is by a 100% levelheaded capacitor design.  On business that really struck me as odd was the placement of the 8pin CPU power connection.  It is at the top of the board on the right side rather than the left like we are used to seeing.

ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard


ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard
Moving over to the reminiscence slots you have room for 4 DIMMS with a total room of 16GB.  Also with the H61 chipset you can only run DDR3 up to 1333 MHz so keep that in mind when purchasing your reminiscence.  At the end of the board is the 24pin power connector and a 3pin fan connector.  Moving down to the underside corner of the board you have most of your relations.  There are 4 SATA 3GB/s ports (blue), 2 SATA 6GB/s ports (colorless), 2 domestic USB 2.0 headers, front panel headers and a 4pin fan connector.

ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard
As far as additional room slots go you have one PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot (blue), two PCI-E 2.0 x1 slots, and 2 PCI slots.  Looking at relations on the board from left to right you have 2 USB 2.0, PS/2 keyboard port, VGA, DVI, HDMI, 2 USB 3.0, ethernet, 2 more USB 2.0 and your audio ports with optical out.  The HDMI is port is a full-sized HDMI connection that chains HDMI 1.4a.

ASRock H61iCafe Intel H61 Motherboard

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