Review ASRock Fatal1ty H97 Killer: Motherboard Gaming dengan Tambahan Fitur Overclocking
Motherboard dengan chipset Intel 9 series menawarkan “sedikit” update dari chipset Intel 8 series generasi sebelumnya. Chipset Intel 9 series ini memberikan beberapa fitur baru terutama dari segi storage, dukungan native untuk prosesor Intel Haswell “refresh” 4th Gen, dan bahkan motherboard dengan chipset 9 series ini diklaim sudah siap (future proof) untuk digunakan pada prosesor Intel Core 5th Gen “Broadwell” 14nm generasi selanjutnya yang masih akan menggunakan soket LGA 1150. Jika Anda berencana untuk membangun PC berbasis Intel terbaru kelas atas dengan Intel Core i Series, Anda bisa melupakan pilihan motherboard dengan chipset Intel 8 series. Varian motherboard dengan chipset Intel 9 series merupakan pilihan paling bijak untuk saat ini dan dapat menawarkan life time yang lebih panjang.
Lalu pilihan motherboard Intel 9 series apa yang cocok untuk Anda? Jika Anda merupakan seorang user enthusiast yang senang melakukan “otak atik” prosesor dengan fitur overclocking (unlocked multiplier) yang terdapat pada prosesor K-series, pilihan paling tepat adalah motherboard dengan chipset Z97. Namun jika Anda seorang gamer yang menginginkan performa optimal out of the box, fitur melimpah, namun harga lebih terjangkau dibandingkan Z97, maka pilihan Anda adalah motherboard dengan chipset H97.
Penjelasan diatas dapat menjadi penjelasan yang valid jika berdasarkan standar official dari Intel sendiri. Faktanya semenjak chipset Intel 8 series lalu, beberapa vendor berhasil membuat BIOS agar motherboard miliknya yang menggunakan chipset H-series dapat memiliki fitur unlock multiplier yang seharusnya hanya bisa dilakukan pada motherboard chipset Z-series. Fitur ini masih tetap disertakan oleh beberapa vendor motherboard hingga ke chipset H97 saat ini, yang tentu akan memberikan keuntungan kepada konsumen. Seperti salah satunya motherboard ASRock Fatal1ty H97 Killer yang akan kami review kali ini.
Intel H97 Chipset
Spesifikasi
CPU | – Supports 5th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium®/Celeron® Processors (Socket 1150) |
– Supports New 4th and 4th Generation Intel® Xeon®/Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium®/Celeron® Processors (Socket 1150) | |
– Digi Power design | |
– 8 Power Phase design | |
– Supports Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology | |
Chipset | – Intel® H97 |
Memory | – Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Technology |
– 4 x DDR3 DIMM Slots | |
– Supports DDR3 1600/1333/1066 non-ECC, un-buffered memory | |
– Max. capacity of system memory: 32GB* | |
– Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 1.3 / 1.2 | |
*Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows® 32-bit OS. For Windows® 64-bit OS with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation. | |
Expansion Slots | – 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slot (PCIE2: x16 mode) |
– 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 Slot (PCIE4: x4 mode) | |
– 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 Slots | |
– 2 x PCI Slots | |
– Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™ | |
Storage | – 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel® Rapid Storage Technology 13 and Intel® Smart Response Technology), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug |
– 1 x SATA Express 10 Gb/s Connector (shared with SATAE_4, SATAE_5 and M.2 Socket)* | |
– 1 x M.2_SSD (NGFF) Socket 3, supports M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen2 x2 (10 Gb/s) | |
Audio | – 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1150 Audio Codec) |
– Premium Blu-ray Audio support | |
– Supports Surge Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection) | |
– Supports Purity Sound™ 2 | |
– Nichicon Fine Gold Series Audio Caps | |
– 115dB SNR DAC with differential amplifier | |
– TI® NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier (Supports up to 600 ohm headsets) | |
– Direct Drive Technology | |
– EMI shielding cover | |
– PCB isolate shielding | |
– Supports DTS Connect | |
LAN | – PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s |
– Qualcomm® Atheros® Killer™ E2200 Series | |
– Supports Qualcomm® Atheros® Security Wake On Internet Technology | |
– Supports Wake-On-LAN | |
– Supports Lightning/ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection) | |
– Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az | |
– Supports PXE | |
Connector | – 1 x COM Port Header |
– 1 x TPM Header | |
– 1 x Power LED Header | |
– 2 x CPU Fan Connectors (1 x 4-pin, 1 x 3-pin) | |
– 3 x Chassis Fan Connectors (1 x 4-pin, 2 x 3-pin) | |
– 1 x Power Fan Connector (3-pin) | |
– 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector | |
– 1 x 8 pin 12V Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector) | |
– 1 x Front Panel Audio Connector | |
– 1 x Thunderbolt™ AIC Connector | |
– 2 x USB 2.0 Headers (Support 4 USB 2.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)) | |
– 1 x USB 3.0 Header (Supports 2 USB 3.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)) | |
Rear Panel I/O | – 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port |
– 1 x D-Sub Port | |
– 1 x DVI-D Port | |
– 1 x HDMI Port | |
– 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port | |
– 3 x USB 2.0 Ports (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)) | |
– 1 x Fatal1ty Mouse Port (USB 2.0) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)) | |
– 4 x USB 3.0 Ports (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)) | |
– 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED) | |
– HD Audio Jacks: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone | |
BIOS | – 2 x 64Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with multilingual GUI support (1 x Main BIOS and 1 x Backup BIOS) |
– Supports Secure Backup UEFI Technology | |
– ACPI 1.1 Compliant wake up events | |
– SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support | |
– CPU, DRAM, PCH 1.05V Voltage Multi-adjustment | |
Form Factor | – ATX Form Factor |
– High Density Glass Fabric PCB | |
Gaming Armor | CPU Power |
– Hi-Density Power Connector | |
Memory | |
– NexFET™ MOSFET | |
– 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots | |
VGA Card | |
– 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE2) | |
Internet | |
– Qualcomm® Atheros® Killer™ LAN | |
Cooling | |
– XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink | |
Audio | |
– Purity Sound™ 2 | |
Unique Feature | ASRock Super Alloy |
– XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink | |
– Premium Alloy Choke (Reduces 70% core loss compared to iron powder choke) | |
– NexFET™ MOSFET | |
– Nichicon 12K Platinum Caps (100% Japan made high quality conductive polymer capacitors) | |
– Sapphire Black PCB | |
ASRock Full Spike Protection | |
ASRock Cloud | |
ASRock APP Shop |
Platform Pengujian ASRock Fatal1ty H97 Killer
- Prosesor: Core i7 4790K
- Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty H97 Killer
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX 970
- Memory: 2x 4GB DDR3 @1600MHz
- Storage: Kingston HyperX 3K SSD
- Flash Drive: Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0
- Power Supply: Corsair AX850
- CPU Heatsink: Corsair H80
- Monitor: LCD Monitor 1920×1080
- Input: Generic Keyboard and Mouse
- OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1