ASRock announces two P45 motherboards

ASRock has announced two new motherboards with Intel's P45 chipset. The P45TS and P45TS-R are almost identical. The P45TS uses Intel's ICH10 southbridge and therefore doesn't support RAID. The P45TS-R does use the ICH10R southbridge, supporting RAID 0, 1 and 5. 

 

The boards can be used with both DDR2 and DDR3 memory (not at the same time). Both models feature six SATA II ports, one of which can be used to power the eSATA port. They also have one PCI-E x16 slot, Gbit LAN, 8-channel HD Audio and ASRock's Smart BIOS.

As the first batch of these motherboards is scheduled to ship this week, we can expect the motherboards to hit the stores shortly.