Thursday, March 08, 2001

Technical details

Plenty of space has been left open around the CPU socket, which should allow for the installation of larger heatsinks.

The memory slots are located too close to the AGP port thus creating the chance of a retention bar coming into contact with the graphics card.

Nine 1500Mfds capacitors have been placed around the CPU socket.

The CPU retention bar is made of plastic, so handle with care.

Three fan connectors are included, all of which are controlled by the hardware monitoring system.

Hardware monitoring is controlled by the Southbridge

It's possible to manually assign IRQs.

The AGP port does support AGP Pro graphics cards.

A thermal sensor connector is included on the motherboard.

A LED diagnostic panel is present on the board itself.

PC-to-PC technology is included, which allows two computers to be networked via their respective USB ports.

A Promise PDC20265R RAID controller is included, which supports RAID modes 0, 1, and 0+1, and brings the total number of simultaneous drives supported to 8.

The BIOS can be rolled-back to the last batch of valid settings by pressing "CTRL-Insert" at start-up.

Next: Additional features.