ASRock
ASRock has been one of the company that makes the innovative products that
generates probably the most interest on OCWorkbench forums. Not only that, it
has lately caught the attention of media to report on the new products that will
be showcased at Computex Taipei 2006.
As usual, ASRock presents some new upcoming products for the AMD and Intel
platforms.We will present the newer boards. Three new boards are :
AM2XLI-eSATA2, ConRoeXFire-eSATA2, AM2V890-VSTA. The rest on the show are
775XFire-eSATA2+
775Dual-VSTA
775XFire-VSTA
775i65G
775Twins-HDTV R2.0
AM2XLI-eSATA2
AM2NF4G-SATA2
939Dual-SATA2
K8NF4G-VSTA
ASRock
AM2XLI-eSATA2 ULi 1697 AM2 mainboard
ASRock continues the tradition of bringing interesting products to the masses
with a good price/performance ratio. Continuing the best of 939SLI-eSATA2,
ASRock brings you AM2XLI-eSATA2, the first board that supports AM2 with XLI
using the ULI M1697 chipset.
Not only that, it enhances it with HDMI_SPDIF header, providing SPDIF audio
output to HDMI VGA card, allows the system to connect HDMI Digital
TV/projector/LCD devices. HD 7.1 channel audio jacks also makes it a perfect fit
for a high end HDTV playback station. It is also Windows Vista Hardware Ready.
- Supports AM2 940-Pin Socket for AMD Athlon 64/64FX/64X2 and Sempron
Processors, FSB 1000MHz (2.0GT/s)
- Supports Dual Graphics XLI
- Supports Dual Channel DDRII800/667/533, 4 DIMMs slots, with maximum capacity
up to 8GB
- 1 x PCI Express x 16 slot
- PCI Express x 8 slot, to adopt 2nd PCI Express x 16 VGA card and other PCI
Express x4, x2, x1 interface cards
- 2 x PCI Express x 1 slots
- 4 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s ports, support RAID (RAID 0, 1, 0+1, JBOD and RAID
5), NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions
- 2 ports of eSATAII 3.0Gb/s (shared with 2 SATAII ports), support NCQ, AHCI and
"Hot Plug" functions
- HDMI_SPDIF header, providing SPDIF audio output to HDMI VGA card, allows the
system to connect HDMI Digital TV/projector/LCD devices.
- 7.1 Channel with High Definition Audio
- Untied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to
fixed PCIE/ PCI Buses
- Windows VistaTM Premium Logo Hardware Ready
- AM2 940-Pin Socket for AMD Athlon 64/64FX/64X2 and Sempron Processors
- ULi M1697
- Supports FSB 1000MHz (2.0GT/s), Hyper-Transport Technology and AMD Cool 'n'
Quiet Technology
- Untied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to
fixed PCIE/ PCI Buses
- Supports Dual Channel DDRII800/667/533, 4 DIMMs slots, with maximum capacity
up to 8GB
- Hybrid Booster - ASRock Safe Overclocking Technology
- Supports Dual Graphics XLI
- PCI Express x16 slot for VGA interface
