Tuesday, July 03, 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 far enough from the AGP port that there is little chance of a retention bar coming into contact with the graphics card.

Ten 2200mfd capacitors have been placed around the CPU socket.

The voltage regulation circuits are of the triple phase variety.

The Northbridge is capped with a heatsink, but without a fan.

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

Three fan connectors are included, but only two 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 pressing "CTRL + Home" at start-up.

Next: Additionnal features.