Friday, August 24, 2001

Technical details

Plenty 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 clip coming into contact with the graphics card.

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

The voltage regulation circuits are of the triple phase & double Mosfet variety.

The ATX connector is situated close to the Southbridge, and in such a way that it will obstruct ventilation.

The CPU locking lever is made of metal, so there's little chance of it breaking.

Three fan connectors are included, but only two are controlled by the hardware monitoring system.

Hardware monitoring is controlled by a Winbond W83697HF circuit.

It's possible to manually assign IRQs.

The AGP port does not support AGP Pro graphics cards.

A Debug LED diagnostic panel is include, which consists of two large LED indicators that provide fats diagnostic information following a crash.

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

Next: Additionnal features.