Wednesday, August 22, 2001

Technical details

A fair amount of space has been provided around the CPU socket, which should allow for the installation of most large heatsinks without too much trouble.

The memory slots are located very close to the AGP port, which raises the risk of a retention bar coming into contact with the graphics card when installing memory.

Nine 2200Mfd capacitors have been placed around the CPU socket.

The CPU locking lever is made of metal, so there's no chance of it breaking.

Only two fan connectors are included, but both are controlled by the hardware monitoring system.

Hardware monitoring is controlled by the internal circuitry of the chipset.

No thermal sensor connectors are included.

Manual assignment of IRQs is supported.

The integrated sound-card provides only the minimum amount of sound support required for office systems, and will not likely appeal to dedicated gamers.

The user's manual is a bit vague at times, and seems geared more towards used system assemblers than to novices..

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

Next: Additional features.