Friday, January 11, 2002

Technical details

The standard amount of space has been provided around the CPU socket in order to fit a P4 heatsink.

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 when installing memory.

The voltage regulation circuits are of the triple phase, bi-Mosfets variety.

Sixteen 3300Mfds capacitors have been installed.

The Northbridge is capped with a heatsink, but no fan.

The ATX connector is located behind the audio ports, which forces users to contour its cables around the CPU socket.

Three fan connectors are included, but only the CPU-fan is controlled by the hardware monitoring system.

Hardware monitoring is controlled by a Winbond W83697HF circuit.

It's not possible to manually assign IRQs.

The AGP port does not support AGP Pro graphics cards.

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

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