Tuesday, May 01, 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 too close to the AGP port. This creates the possibility of the retention bars for slots 1 & 2 to come into contact with the graphics card when left in the open position.

Four 3900Mfds and five 2700Mfds capacitors have been placed around the CPU socket.

Voltage regulation is controlled by a triple phase circuit.

The Northbridge has been capped-off with a cooler..

The CPU retention bar is made of metal, so there's no chance of it breaking.

Two fan connectors are included, and both are controlled by the hardware monitoring system.

Hardware monitoring is controlled by the chipset.

It's not possible to manually assign IRQs.

The BIOS can be rolled-back to the last batch of valid settings by holding "CTRL + Insert" at start-up, until one hears a "Beep".

Next: Additionnal features.