Sneak peek of Asus' upcoming Clarkdale motherboard

Intel's 32nm Clarkdale processors are just around the corner, with an expected launch date in early 2010. Major motherboard manufacturers are hustling to release Clarkdale related products, and pictures of a new motherboard from Asus have leaked.

The Asus P7H57D-V EVO houses an LGA 1156 CPU socket, an H57 chipset, and various display outputs, including VGA, DVI and HDMI. Intel's Clarkdale CPUs have a built-in graphics chip that sits on the same die as the processor's dual-channel DDR3 memory controller (a separate piece of silicon from the CPU cores).


Judging from the pictures, Asus' P7H57D-V EVO has four DDR3 DIMM slots, two PCIe x16 slots (and presumably SLI and/or CrossFireX support), three PCIe x1 slots, two PCI slots, six SATA 3.0Gb/s ports, and two SATA 6.0Gb/s ports. Among the connectors on the rear I/O panel are a PS/2 combo port, an assortment of USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports, an optical S/PDIF port, eSATA, IEEE 1394a, Gigabit Ethernet, and various sound jacks.

Legit Reviews offers a thorough rundown of Asus' P7H57D-V EVO if you're interested in the finer details.