Anschlüsse und I/O

Totally ASRock equipped the Extreme7 Gen3 with ten angled SATA ports which should be enough for any gaming system or high end PC. You'll also find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons. There also is a debug display which is very useful if you should have issues with one of the components in your system. A feature overclockers will like, concerns the additional molex connectors which can be used to additionally stabilize the power supply for the graphics cards.

 

Totally you'll find six fan header on the Extreme7 Gen3 which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped high-end-system with fresh air. The fanheaders are located around the CPU socket as well as at the bottom edge of the board. The fact that ASRock equipped the Extreme7 Gen3 with a total of five PCI Express x16 slots made it very likely that one of those slots might be placed at the bottom edge of the board. At the end of the day this really is the case. Therefore, if you place a dual slot graphics card in the last expansion slot this will cover the connectors at the bottom edge of the board.

  

Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel ASRock equipped the Extreme7 Gen3 with four USB 3.0/2.0 ports, two USB 2.0 port, one eSATA 3 Gbps ports, two gigabit ethernet ports, one VGA connector, one DVI port, a HDMI port, a display port and and analogue audio panel with an optical out.