ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Performance: 1. Introduction

Fatal1ty P67 Performance Series Motherboard

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1. Introduction

Thank you for purchasing 

Fatal1ty P67 Performance Series

 motherboard, a reli-

able motherboard produced under our consistently stringent quality control. It deliv-

ers excellent performance with robust design conforming to our commitment to qual-

ity and endurance.

In this manual, chapter 1 and 2 contain introduction of the motherboard and step-

by-step guide to the hardware installation. Chapter 3 and 4 contain the con

fi

 guration 

guide to BIOS setup and information of the Support CD.    

Because the motherboard speci

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 cations and the BIOS software might be 

updated, the content of this manual will be subject to change without no-

tice. In case any modi

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 cations of this manual occur, the updated version 

will be available on our website without further notice. 

If you require technical support related to this motherboard, please visit 

our website for speci

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 c information about the model you are using.

1.1 Package Contents

Fatal1ty P67 Performance Series

 Motherboard 

(ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 9.6-in, 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm)

Fatal1ty P67 Performance Series

 Quick Installation Guide

Fatal1ty P67 Performance Series

 Support CD 

1 x 80-conductor Ultra ATA 66/100/133 IDE Ribbon Cable

1 x Ribbon Cable for a 3.5-in Floppy Drive

4 x Serial ATA (SATA) Data Cables (Optional)

1 x 3.5mm Audio Cable (Optional)

1 x I/O Panel Shield 

We Remind You...

To get better performance in Windows

® 

7 / 7 64-bit / Vista

TM 

/ Vista

TM

 64-

bit, it is recommended to set the BIOS option in Storage Con

fi

 guration to 

AHCI mode. For the BIOS setup, please refer to the “User Manual” in our 

support CD for details.

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1.2 Specifications

 Platform

- ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 9.6-in, 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm

- All Solid Capacitor design (100% Japan-made high-quality 

  Conductive Polymer Capacitors)

 CPU

- Supports 2nd Generation Intel

®

 Core

TM

 i7 / i5 / i3 in  

  LGA1155 Package    

- Advanced V8 Power Phase Design

- Supports Intel

®

 Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology 

- Supports K-Series unlocked CPU

- Supports Hyper-Threading Technology (see 

CAUTION 1

)

 Chipset 

- Intel

®

 P67

 Memory 

- Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Technology (see 

CAUTION 2

)    

- 4 x DDR3 DIMM slots  

- Supports DDR3 2133(OC)/1866(OC)/1600/1333/1066 

  non-ECC, un-buffered memory (see 

CAUTION 3

)  

- Max. capacity of system memory: 32GB (see 

CAUTION 4

)

- Supports Intel

®

 Extreme Memory Pro

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 le (XMP) 

 Expansion Slot 

- 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot 

- 3 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots 

- 3 x PCI slots

 Audio 

- 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection 

  (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec)  

- Premium Blu-ray audio support

 LAN 

- PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s

- Realtek RTL8111E

- Supports Wake-On-LAN

- Supports LAN Cable Detection

- Supports Energy Ef

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 cient Ethernet 802.3az

 Rear Panel I/O 

I/O Panel

- 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port

- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port

- 1 x Coaxial SPDIF Out Port

- 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port

- 5 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports

- 1 x Fatal1ty Mouse Port (USB 2.0)

- 1 x eSATA3 Connector

- 2 x Ready-to-Use USB 3.0 Ports

- 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED  

  LED)

- 1 x Clear CMOS Switch with LED 

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- HD Audio Jack: Side Speaker/Rear Speaker/Central/Bass/ 

  Line in/Front Speaker/Microphone (see 

CAUTION 5

)

 SATA3

- 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, 

  RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel Rapid Storage), NCQ,  

  AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions (SATA3_1 connector is 

  shared with eSATA3 port)

 USB3.0

- 2 x USB 3.0 ports by Etron EJ168A, support USB 1.0/2.0/3.0 

  up to 5Gb/s

Connector

- 4 x SATA2 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, 

  RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel Rapid Storage), NCQ,  

  AHCI and Hot Plug functions

- 2 x SATA3 6.0Gb/s connectors

- 1 x ATA133 IDE connector (supports 2 x IDE devices) 

- 1 x Floppy connector

- 1 x IR header

- 1 x COM port header

- 1 x HDMI_SPDIF header

- 1 x Power LED header

- CPU/Chassis/Power FAN connector

- 24 pin ATX power connector

- 8 pin 12V power connector

- Front panel audio connector

- 3 x USB 2.0 headers (support 6 USB 2.0 ports) 

- 1 x Dr. Debug (7-Segment Debug LED) 

Smart Switch

- 1 x Clear CMOS Switch with LED 

- 1 x Power Switch with LED

- 1 x Reset Switch with LED

BIOS Feature

- 64Mb AMI BIOS

- AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with GUI support

- Supports “Plug and Play”

- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events

- Supports jumperfree

- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support

- DRAM, PCH, CPU PLL, VTT, VCCSA Voltage 

  Multi-adjustment

 Support CD 

- Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version), Software  

  Suite (CyberLink DVD Suite - OEM and Trial; Creative 

  Sound Blaster X-Fi MB - Trial)

 Unique Feature

- F-Stream (see 

CAUTION 6

)

- ASRock Instant Boot

- ASRock Instant Flash (see 

CAUTION 7

) 

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- ASRock APP Charger (see 

CAUTION 8

) 

- SmartView (see 

CAUTION 9

) 

- ASRock XFast USB (see 

CAUTION 10

)  

- ASRock On/Off Play Technology (see 

CAUTION 11

)  

- Hybrid Booster:

    - CPU Frequency Stepless Control (see 

CAUTION 12

) 

    - ASRock U-COP (see 

CAUTION 13

)

    - Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G.)

- Combo Cooler Option (C.C.O.) (see 

CAUTION 14

)

- Good Night LED

Hardware 

- CPU Temperature Sensing

Monitor

- Chassis Temperature Sensing

- CPU/Chassis/Power Fan Tachometer

- CPU/Chassis Quiet Fan (Allow Chassis Fan Speed 

  Auto-Adjust by CPU Temperature)

- CPU/Chassis Fan Multi-Speed Control

- Voltage Monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Vcore 

 OS

 - 

Microsoft

® 

Windows

® 

7 / 7 64-bit / Vista

TM 

/ Vista

TM

 64-bit    

  / XP / XP 64-bit compliant

 Certi

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 cations

- FCC, CE, WHQL

- ErP/EuP Ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required) 

  (see 

CAUTION 15

)

 WARNING

Please realize that there is a certain risk involved with overclocking, including 

adjusting the setting in the BIOS, applying Untied Overclocking Technology, or 

using the third-party overclocking tools. Overclocking may affect your system 

stability, or even cause damage to the components and devices of your system.    

It should be done at your own risk and expense. We are not responsible for possible  

damage caused by overclocking.

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CAUTION!

1.  About the setting of “Hyper Threading Technology”, please check page 

51 of “User Manual” in the support CD.

2.  This motherboard supports Dual Channel Memory Technology. Before 

you implement Dual Channel Memory Technology, make sure to read the  

installation guide of memory modules on page 16 for proper installation.

3.  DDR3 frequency options may depend on the processor. Only K-Series 

CPU can support DDR3 overclock to 2133 and 1866. 

4.  Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be 

less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows

®

 7 / 

Vista

TM

 / XP. For Windows

®

 OS with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limita-

tion. 

5.  For microphone input, this motherboard supports both stereo and mono 

modes. For audio output, this motherboard supports 2-channel, 4-chan-

nel, 6-channel, and 8-channel modes. Please check the table on page 5 

for proper connection.

6.  F-Stream is an all-in-one tool to 

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 ne-tune different system functions in a 

user-friendly interface, which currently includes Hardware Monitor, Fan 

Control, Overclocking, OC DNA, Mouse Polling and IES. In the Hardware 

Monitor mode, F-Stream shows the major readings of your system. In 

Fan Control mode, F-Stream shows the fan speed and temperature for 

you to adjust. In Overclocking Control mode, F-Stream allows you to 

overclock the CPU frequency for optimal system performance. In OC 

DNA mode, you can save your OC settings as a pro

fi

 le and share them 

with your friends. Your friends can then load the OC pro

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 le in to their own 

system to get the same OC settings. In Mouse Polling mode, F-Stream 

allows you to adjust the mouse polling rate of the Fatal1ty Mouse port to 

add a professional level mouse con

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 guration. In IES (Intelligent Energy 

Saver) mode, the voltage regulator can reduce the number of output 

phases to improve ef

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 ciency when the CPU cores are idle without sacri-

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 cing computing performance.

7.  Instant Flash is a BIOS 

fl

 ash utility embedded in Flash ROM. This con-

venient BIOS update tool allows you to update system BIOS without 

entering operating systems 

fi

 rst like MS-DOS or Windows

®

. With this util-

ity, you can press <F6> key during the POST or press <F2> key to BIOS 

setup menu to access Instant Flash. Just launch this tool and save the 

new BIOS 

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 le to your USB 

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 ash drive, 

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 oppy disk or hard drive, then you 

can update your BIOS only in a few clicks without preparing an additional 

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 oppy diskette or other complicated 

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 ash utility. Please be noted that the 

USB 

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 ash drive or hard drive must use FAT32/16/12 

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 le system. 

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8.  If you desire a faster, less restricted way of charging your Apple devices, 

such as iPhone/iPod/iPad Touch, we have prepared a wonderful solution 

for you - APP Charger. Simply installing the APP Charger driver, it makes 

your iPhone charged much quickly from your computer and up to 40% 

faster than before. APP Charger allows you to quickly charge many Apple 

devices simultaneously and even supports continuous charging when 

your PC enters into Standby mode (S1), Suspend to RAM (S3), hiberna-

tion mode (S4) or power off (S5). With APP Charger driver installed, you 

can easily enjoy the marvelous charging experience than ever.

9.  SmartView, a new function of internet browser, is the smart start page for 

IE that combines your most visited web sites, your history, your Facebook 

friends and your real-time newsfeed into an enhanced view for a more 

personal Internet experience. Our motherboards are exclusively equipped 

with the SmartView utility that helps you keep in touch with friends on-

the-go. To use SmartView feature, please make sure your OS version is 

Windows

®

 7 / 7 64 bit / Vista

TM

 / Vista

TM

 64 bit, and your browser version 

is IE8.  

10.  XFast USB can boost USB storage device performance. The perfor-

mance may depend on the property of the device. 

11.  On/Off Play Technology allows users to enjoy the great audio experience 

from the portable audio devices, such like MP3 player or mobile phone 

to your PC, even when the PC is turned off (or in ACPI S5 mode)! This 

motherboard also provides a free 3.5mm audio cable (optional) that en-

sures users the most convenient computing environment.

12.  Although this motherboard offers stepless control, it is not recommended 

to perform over-clocking. Frequencies other than the recommended CPU 

bus frequencies may cause the instability of the system or damage the 

CPU.  

13.  When it is detected that the CPU is overheating, the system will automat-

ically shutdown. Before you re-start the system, please check if the CPU 

fan on the motherboard functions properly and unplug the power cord, 

then plug it back again. To improve heat dissipation, remember to spray 

thermal grease between the CPU and the heatsink when you install the 

PC sys tem.

14.  Combo Cooler Option (C.C.O.) provides the 

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 exible option to adopt three 

different CPU cooler types, Socket LGA 775, LGA 1155 and LGA 1156. 

Please be noticed that not all the 775 and 1156 CPU Fan can be used. 

15.  EuP, stands for Energy Using Product, was a provision regulated by Eu-

ropean Union to de

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 ne the power consumption for the completed system. 

According to EuP, the total AC power of the completed system shall be 

under 1.00W in off mode condition. To meet EuP standard, an EuP ready 

motherboard and an EuP ready power supply are required. According to 

Intel’s suggestion, the EuP ready power supply must meet the standard 

of 5v standby power ef

fi

 ciency is higher than 50% under 100 mA current 

consumption. For EuP ready power supply selection, we recommend you 

checking with the power supply manufacturer for more details.