ASRock X58 Extreme motherboard first with EuP support

ASRock informed us their X58 Extreme motherboard will be released by the end of the month, this new Core i7 motherboard is the first to support the EuP (Energy Using Products) standard. It also has triple channel DDR3 2000MHz memory support, three double-wide spacing PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots, and support for NVIDIA SLI and ATI CrossFire X.

EuP, stands for Energy Using Product, was a provision regulated by European Union to define the power consumption for the completed system. With the great quantity and the popularly using of the electrical products nowadays and the continuously increasing of the electrical products categories in the following 20 to 30 years, European Union decided to establish an effective strategy to solve the energy consumption problem. That is, according to EuP, the total AC power of the completed system shall be under 1.00W in off mode condition.