The
board comes with 2 PCI, 3 PCIex 16 slots and 2 PCIe x 1 slot.
The blue colour slot runs at PCIe x8 while the two brown coloured slots runs
at full PCie x16. Behind the PCIe x1 slot are the two Marvell GbE
Controllers. On its left is the Realtek HD audio codec. At the centre, we
can see the north bridge which is attached with a passive heatsink. On its
right is where the LGA775 cpu sits.
At the bottom left corner of the
board is the BIOS, USB connectors, 1394 connectors for external brackets.
There is also a Diagnostic LED. Next to it is the south bridge which
controls the 1 IDE channel and the SATAII ports. Over to the right is the 4
DIMM slots. Below the DIMM slot is the weird positoin of the Front panel
connector. There is another Power connector next to Front panel connector,
that is for the AUX Power for graphics card. Protruding from the board is 2
STAII ports and a FDD connector (black) which i find the positioning a bit
awkward. |