Tuesday, June 19, 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.

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

Five enormous 4700mfds capacitors have been installed on-board.

The voltage regulation circuits are of the double bi-phase variety (4 X 2 Mosfets).

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

Hardware monitoring is controlled by the VT82C686B Southbridge.

It's possible to manually assign IRQs.

A Promise Technologies 20265R RAID controller is included, and permits up to 4 drives to be installed under RAID 0, 1, or 0+1 mode.

A D-LED diagnostic panel is present, which allows the system to be diagnosed at a glance.

Fuzzy Logic 3, is included, which allows users to Overclock their systems from within Windows without needing to restart their computers.

The Live BIOS update system is also included, which permits the BIOS to be updated on-line.

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

Next: Additional features.