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The Penryn 1600SLI-110dB is a very well laid out motherboard considering the available features that we will discuss shortly. Of note, the board has three PCI Express x16 slots of which one (white) is designed to work at x16 speeds with a single graphics card setup. The motherboard exhibited very good Vdroop levels with idle around -.01V raising to -.03V under load. We have included a stock 9x333 screenshot as a reference point. Memory timings and performance results at stock settings were equal between the 4GB and 8GB setups.
In all cases, once the various voltage and memory timings were dialed in, the board proved to be extremely stable. This is a very good indicator that ASRock can fine tune additional performance and hopefully address a few of our requests for improvements. They have already responded with a new BIOS release that we are testing currently. Read more...

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