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ASRock
ALiveXFire-eSATA2 ATi Xpress 1600 (RD480+SB600) Mainboard Review Intro 1/5
Bluetooth 1 Oct 2006
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ASRock
ALiveXFire-eSATA2
ASRock's ALiveXfire-eSATA2 is
the first AM2 board from ASRock that uses ATi chipset. ASRock never fail to
shock us by their innovation. Never did I expect them to pair up an older RD480
with the newest SB600 from ATi for CrossFire solution!. On the
ALiveXFire-eSATA2, the ATi RD480+SB600 pair is used to support dual PCIe x8 for
CrossFire or single PCIe x16.
This board supports Dual 8x PCIe for CrossFire, DC-DDR2-533/667/800, GbE, 4 SATA
II with 2 can be paired up for eSATA connection. It has HDMI_SPDIF header to
provide audio thru the HDMI VGA card. It also has 7.1 HD audio and attained the
Windows Vista Premium Hardware Ready and can run Windows MCE. It is also AMD
ALive! Ready!
With AMD+ATI merger, it would
mean that AMD will pay more emphasis to give more support to the ATi chipsets.
ASRock can foresee the market paradigm shifting towards ATi and come out with
this latest board ALiveXFire-eSATA.
The package consists of the CD, Manual,
4 SATA II cables, USB bracket and the mainboard.
Specs
|
CPU |
- Socket AM2 for AMD
Athlon™ 64FX / 64X2 / 64 and Sempron Processors
- AMD LIVE!™ Ready
- Supports AMD's Cool 'n' Quiet Technology
- FSB 1000 MHz (2.0 GT/s)
- Supports Untied Overclocking Technology
- Supports Hyper-Transport Technology |
| Chipset |
- Northbridge: ATI™ CrossFire™ Xpress 1600 (RD480)
- Southbridge: ATI™ SB600 |
| Hybrid
Booster |
- CPU Frequency Stepless Control
- ASRock U-COP
- Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G.)
- ASRock AM2 Boost: ASRock Patented Technology to boost memory performance
up to 12.5% |
| Memory |
- Dual Channel DDRII memory technology
- 4 x DDRII DIMM slots
- Supports DDRII800/667/533
- Max. capacity: 8GB**Due to
the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB
for the reservation for system usage under Windows® XP and
Windows® Vista™. For Windows® XP 64-bit and Windows®
Vista™ 64-bit with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation. |
| Expansion
Slot |
- Supports ATI™ CrossFire™
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot with PCIE Switch card or 2 x PCI Express Graphics
slots for ATI™ CrossFire™
- 1 x PCI Express x1 slot
- 3 x PCI slots |
| Graphics |
- n/a |
| Audio |
- 7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level
HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec) |
| LAN |
- Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
- PCIE x1 Realtek RTL8111B
- Supports Wake-On-LAN |
| Connector |
- 4 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID
(RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions
- 2 x eSATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors (shared with 2 SATAII ports), support RAID
(RAID 0 and RAID 1), NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions
- 1 x ATA133 IDE connector (supports 2 x IDE devices)
- 1 x Floppy connector
- 1 x IR header
- 1 x Game header
- 1 x HDMI_SPDIF header
- CPU/Chassis FAN connector
- 20 pin ATX power connector
- 4 pin 12V power connector
- SLI/XFire power connector
- CD in header
- Front panel audio connector
- 4 x USB 2.0 headers (support 8 USB 2.0 ports) |
| Rear
Panel I/O |
ASRock 8CH_eSATAII I/O
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port
- 1 x Serial Port: COM1
- 1 x Parallel Port (ECP/EPP Support)
- 2 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports
- 2 x eSATAII Ports
- 1 x RJ-45 Port
- HD Audio Jack: Side Speaker / Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in /
Front Speaker / Microphone |
| BIOS
Feature |
- 4Mb AMI BIOS
- AMI Legal BIOS
- Supports "Plug and Play"
- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events
- Supports jumperfree
- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support |
| Support
CD |
- Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial
Version) |
| Hardware
Monitor |
- CPU Internal Temperature Sensing
- CPU Ambient Temperature Sensing
- Chassis Temperature Sensing
- CPU Fan Tachometer
- Chassis Fan Tachometer
- CPU Quiet Fan
- Voltage Monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, Vcore |
|
Accessories |
- Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield
- Floppy/ATA 133 cables
- 4 x SATA data cables (optional)
- 2 x SATA 1 to 1 power cables (optional)
- 1 x HDMI_SPDIF cable (optional)
- 1 x USB bracket
- 1 x PCIE Switch card |
| Form
Factor |
- ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 8.2-in, 30.5 cm x 20.8
cm |
| OS |
- Microsoft® Windows® 2000 /
XP / XP Media Center / XP 64-bit / Vista™ compliant |
|
Certifications |
- FCC, CE, WHQL |
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