Tuesday, July 17, 2001

Technical details

Very little space has been left open around the CPU socket, which prevents 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.

Sixteen 1500Mfds capacitors have been placed around the CPU socket.

The voltage regulation circuits are of the triple phase variety.

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.

Hardware monitoring is controlled by a Winbond W83627HF circuit.

It's possible to manually assign IRQs.

The AGP port does not support AGP Pro graphics cards.

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

Next: Additional features.