Friday, February 15, 2002

Technical details

A fairly restrained amount of space has been left open around the CPU socket, which will obstruct 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 when installing memory.

Five 3900Mfds and five 2700Mfds capacitors have been installed around the CPU socket.

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

The ATX connector is located behind the audio ports, which makes connecting the power-lines rather messy.

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

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

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

Hardware monitoring is controlled by a Winbond W83627SF circuit.

It's not possible to manually assign IRQs.

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

Next: Additional features.