Wednesday, June 06, 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 bar coming into contact with the graphics card.

Twelve 1500mfds capacitors have been placed around the CPU socket.

The electrical regulation circuits are of the triple-phase variety.

The BIOS supports Super Bypass mode.

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

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

The hardware monitoring system does not measure CPU or ambient temperatures.

Hardware monitoring is controlled by the chipset.

It's not possible to manually assign IRQs.

The Northbridge has been installed without a heatsink.

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

Next: Additionnal features.