Thursday, April 05, 2001

Technical details

A limited amount of space has been left open around the CPU socket, which might interferes with the installation of larger heatsinks.

The memory slots are located close enough to the AGP port that there is a significant chance of the retention bar for memory slot 1 coming into contact with the graphics card.

Thirteen 2200mfd and eight 1000mfd capacitors have been placed around the CPU socket

The CPU locking lever is made of metal, so there's little chance of in breaking.

Four fan connectors are included, but only two are controlled by the hardware monitoring system.

Hardware monitoring is controlled by the chipset.

It's possible to manually assign IRQs.

Two thermistors are included, which measure the CPU, and internal ambient temperatures respectively.

The Northbridge has been capped-off with a cooling fan and a heatsink.

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