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Top Right Corner of the mainboard. From here we can see 5
PCI slots and 1 AGP slot. The on board audio codec used is Realtek ALC650
6 channel. LAN chip RTL801L. |
Yellow coloured Socket 462 looks attractive! The dip switch
is the multiplier control. There are no holes around the socket for those
who are using alpha heatsink. |
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3 x 1394 connectors (grey), 2 x USB 2.0 connectors
(yellow), VIA VT6306 1394 chipset, Dual BIOS, SiliconImage SATA, Promise
RAID chipset PDC20276 and VIA KT8235 South Bridge. |
3 DIMM slots supporting up to 3GB of DDR266/DDR333/DDR400.
2 channels of ATA133 and 2 channels of IDE RAID (using Promise chipset) |
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Multipliers can be set from AUTO, 5x ~ 18x |
Multipliers can be set via the dip switch in the photo on
the left. The dip switch is on the top right hand corner of the mainboard.
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SATA connector supported by SiliconImage SATALink
Sil3112AGT114 chipset. The colour coded front panel connectors aids in
getting them hook up correctly. |
2 channels of IDE RAID is supported by the Promise PDC20276
chipset |
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VIA KT8235 South Bridge is being used instead of the KT8237
which will natively support SATA. |
The VIA KT400A North Bridge is a week 9 2003 CD stepping.
This new chipset features
VIA
FastStream64™ Technology uses an expanded array of prefetch buffers to
reduce latency in the memory controller. |
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The Dual BIOS with 2x USB connectors and 3 x 1394 (yellow
colour) connectors (grey in colour - partially shown). |
VIA VT6306 responsible for the 3 x 1394 ports
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