ASRock is known for its odd solutions. There are more than plenty of ASRock motherboards out there with solutions that can’t be found with other motherboards. Most of them are geared toward the budget segment and the functions are mainly designed to save money for the user. E.g. motherboards with support for two different memory standards or sockets, or even Intel and AMD processors. In the case of ASRock Penryn1600SLIX3-WIFI, the difference between it and other motherboards is that it’s based on the nForce 680i chipset, but still has Penryn support.
ASRock Penryn1600SLIX3-WIFI also supports 3-way SLI and comes with a SLI bridge for using three cards. And as we know that nForce 780i is just 680i plus a PCIe 2.0 bridge, ASRock’s motherboard should prove more than capable. Of course, this also proves our previous stories that the problem with NVIDIA’s reference design was not the chipset, but the layout and the poor choice of components.
OCWorkbench has a review up and when you look at their numbers and compare them to recent nForce 790i reviews, it certainly seems like the two chipsets has a lot in common.
