Tuesday, September 24, 2002

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 -- with the notable exceptions of numbers 1 and 2 -- 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.

Nine 3300mfds, and two 2200mfds 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 is capped with a heatsink, but no fan.

Three fan connectors are included, one of which is for the CPU fan, and another for the power fan.

This board permits the manual assignment of IRQs.

USB 2.0 (480Mbits/sec) ports are included.

An integrated AC'97 sound-card is included.

A Realtek RTL8100B 10/100Base-T Ethernet controller is included.

 

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Matsonic MS9068E