ASRock introduces AGP+PCIe ALiveDual-eSATA2 Phenom X4 board based on NVIDIA NF3/ULi M1695 chipset

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Don't be shocked, ASRock always gives us surprises. Do you still remember the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 that uses the ULi M1567/1695 chipset pair supporting the Socket 939 with AGP and PCI Express ?

ASRock now launches the first board that supports Phenom X4/X4 and AM2 CPU using the M1695 and NF3 250 chipset. Now the NF3 250 chipset. is supplied as the north bridge that supports the AGP while the ULi M1695 remains as the tunneling chipset which provides the PCI Express lanes.

The board has a WiFi header which supports WiFi+AP function with ASRock Wifi-802.11g or WiFi-802.11n module, a easy to use Wireless LAN Adaptor. These modules will be announced later.

ASRock has created the first Phenom compatible board that supports both AGP and PCIe graphics card. Not only that, it comes with GbE, eSATA2, HDA etc. It is the Alibaba board for Phenom - basically it supports anything you could have thought of. So you have a reason to stay put with your favourite AGP card and upgrade to Phenom X4


ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2

• Socket AM2 for AMD Phenom™ X4 / X2, Athlon 64FX / 64X2 / X2 / 64 and Sempron processors
• NVIDIA^® M1695 Chipset
• NVIDIA^® nForce3 250 Chipset

• FSB 1000 MHz (2.0 GT/s), Hyper-Transport Technology and AMD Cool 'n' Quiet Technology
• AMD LIVE!™ Ready
• Supports Dual Channel DDRII800/667/533 , 4 x DIMM slots, with max. capacity up to 8GB
• ASRock AM2 Boost: ASRock Patented Technology to boost memory performance up to 12.5%
• 1 x PCI Express x16 slot
• 1 x AGP 8X slot
• Untied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed AGP/PCIE/ PCI Buses
• Hybrid Booster - ASRock Safe Overclocking Technology
• Supports PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
• 2 x Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s connectors by NVIDIA^® nForce3 250, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD) and "Hot Plug" functions
• 2 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors by JMicron^® JMB363 (PCIE x1 interface), support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD), NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions
• 1 x eSATAII 3.0 Gb/s connector (shared with 1 SATAII port), supports NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions
• 1 x WiFi header
• 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 Superior Audio (C-Media CM6501 Audio Codec with UAA architecture)
• Supports all features in Windows^® Vista™ Premium
• Supports Windows^® XP Media Center Edition
• ASRock 8CH_eSATAII I/O Plus : 1 eSATAII port, 4 ready-to-use USB ports

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