ASRock 4Core1333-eSATA2 R5.0 Motherboard Review

by AkG     |     January 22, 2008

Specifications





[*]LGA 775 for Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® Dual Core / Celeron®, supporting Quad Core Yorkfield and Dual Core Wolfdale processors[*]Intel® P31/G31 + ICH7R Chipsets[/list]
  • Compatible with all FSB1333/1066/800MHz CPUs
  • Supports Dual Channel DDRII800/667 x 4 DIMM slots, with max. capacity up to 4GB
  • Supports ATI™ CrossFire™
  • 1 x PCI Express x16 slot
  • Additional AGI Express slot to adopt 2nd PCI Express x16 VGA card, and other PCI Express x4, x2, x1 interface cards
  • Untied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed PCIE/ PCI Buses
  • Hybrid Booster - Safe Overclocking Technology
  • Supports PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
  • Supports 2 x IEEE1394 ports (one port on back panel, one header on board)
  • 4 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel® Matrix Storage), NCQ and AHCI functions
  • 1 x eSerial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s (shared with 1 SATAII port)
  • HDMI_SPDIF header, providing SPDIF audio output to HDMI VGA card, allows the system to connect HDMI Digital TV/projector/LCD devices.
  • 7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec)
  • Windows® Vista™ Premium 2007 Logo Ready
  • ASRock 1394_eSATAII I/O Plus: 1 eSATAII port, 1 x IEEE 1394 port, 4 ready-to-use USB ports
 
 
 

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