Thursday, September 12, 2002

Details techniques

The standard amount of space has been provided around the CPU socket in order to fit a P4 heatsink.

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 when installing memory.

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

Eight 3300mfds capacitors have been placed around the CPU socket.

The power connectors have been placed between the Northbridge and the audio ports; not an ideal placement by any means.

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

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

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

Hardware monitoring is controlled by a Winbond W83627HF circuit.

This board permits manual assignment of IRQs.

A VIA VT6306 microchip provides support for USB 2.0 ports.

An integrated Realtek RTL8100B Ethernet controller is included.

The on-board RAID 0+1 controller is a Promise PDC20265R chip.

And finally, the BIOS can be rolled-back to the last batch of valid settings by pressing "Insert" at start-up.

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