Monday, June 25, 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.

Two 4700Mfds and two 3900Mfds capacitors have been installed around the CPU socket.

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

Three fan connectors are included, and all of them are controlled by the hardware monitoring system.

It's not possible to manually assign IRQs.

The AGP port does not support AGP Pro graphics cards.

A spare thermal sensor connector is present, and an extra thermal probe included with the board.

A four LED diagnostic panel is included.

PC-2-PC networking technology is included, which allows 2 system to be tied together via their USB ports.

A integrated Promise Technologies PDC20265R RAID controller is included, supports modes 0, 1, and 0+1, and allows a total of eight IDE drives to be plugged into the board at once when taking into account the 4 drives supported by the standard IDE controler.

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

Suite: Additional features.