Tuesday, December 04, 2001

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 too close to the AGP port, thus introducing the chance of a retention clip coming into contact with the graphics card when installing memory.

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

Seven 2200Mfds and three 1500Mfds capacitors have been placed around the CPU socket.

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

The ATX connector is located between the CPU-socket on the East end, and the memory slots, where its wires shouldn't interfere with CPU ventilation. The 12V connector, for its part, is located to the South of the processor.

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

Hardware monitoring is controlled by a Winbond W83627HF circuit.

It's not possible to manually assign IRQs.

The AGP port does not support AGP Pro graphics cards.

A 4-led alphanumeric diagnostic panel is present.

A Promise PDC20265R RAID-controller is included.

An extra thermal-sensor connector is present.

Sound is controller by a C-Media CMI8738 audio-chip.

This board supports PC Alert, PC-2-PC, and Live BIOS.

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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