Friday, June 15, 2001

Technical details

A fair amount of space has been left open around the CPU socket, which should allow for the installation of large heatsinks.

The memory slots are located far enough from the AGP port that there is little chance of a retention bar coming into contact with the graphics card.

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

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

Two fan connectors are included, and both are controlled by the hardware monitoring system.

Hardware monitoring is controlled by the VT82C686B Southbridge, but does not allow users to select alarms to sound when the CPU reaches a certain temperature, or in the occurance of a fan failure.

It's not possible to manually assign IRQs.

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

Next: additionnal features.