Friday, December 13, 2002

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 bar coming into contact with the graphics card when installing memory.
 

Six 3300mfds and two 1500mfds capacitors have been placed around the CPU socket.

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

The Northbridge and the Southbridge are both capped with heatsinks.

The power connectors are located in an unideal position between the Northbridge and the audio ports.

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

Hardware monitoring is controlled by an ITE IT8705F circuit.

This board permits the manual assignment of IRQs.

USB 2.0 (480Mbps) and Firewire/IEEE-1394 are included, thanks to the SIS963 controller.

Audio capabilities are provided by a six-channel C-Media CMI9739A sound-card.

10/100Base-T Ethernet capabilities are made possible by the integrated Realtek RTL8100B network controller.

Serial ATA, and RAID 0+1 is made possible by the Silicon Image 3112A.

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

Next: Additional features.

ECS L4S8A