ASRock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 ATi Xpress 1600 (RD480+SB600) Mainboard Review Intro 2/5
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The board comes with 3 PCI, 1 PCIex1 and 2 PCIex16 sized slot for single PCIe x16 or Dual PCIe x8 card. The PCIe Switch card must be inserted into the Peg slot when using a single graphics card. On the top, you would see audio codec ALC888, Realtek PCIe GbE RTL8111 chip, BIOS chip and I/O controller. Towards the right is the eSATA ports RED and ORANGE connector. They are to be connected to the board's ports their the south bridge if you intend to use external SATA ports found at the back of the mainboard.

At the bottom left, you will see the 4 SATA II ports and 1 IDE channel supported by the SB600 chipset. On its left are the USB connectors. On its right are 4 DIMM slots supporting up to a total of 8GB of memory using DDR2-533/667/800.

The back panel consists of PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse, LPT1, COM1, 2 USB ports, 2x eSATA2 ports, GbE and 7.1 ch audio ports.

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