Performance
| Motherboard form factor |
ATX |
| Audio system |
ALC888 |
Back panel I/O ports
| Parallel ports quantity |
1 |
| Serial ports quantity |
1 |
| PS/2 ports quantity |
2 |
| S/PDIF out port |
Y |
| eSATA ports quantity |
1 |
Internal I/O
| USB 2.0 connectors |
6 |
| S/PDIF out connector |
Y |
| Number of SATA connectors |
4 |
| Floppy disk drive connector |
Y |
| CD/AUX audio in |
Y |
| Front panel audio connector |
Y |
Memory
| Non-ECC |
Y |
| Number of memory slots |
2 |
| Maximum internal memory |
4 GB |
Expansion slots
| Expansion slots |
- 2 x PCI-E x16\n- 3 x PCI |
Additionally
| Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports quantity |
1 |
4Core1600Twins-P35
- LGA 775 for Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® Dual Core / Celeron®, supporting Penryn Quad Core Yorkfield and Dual Core Wolfdale processors.
- Intel® P35 + ICH9 Chipsets.
- Compatible with FSB1600/1333MHz CPUs.
- Supports Dual Channel DDR3 1333 (2 x DIMM slots) with max. capacity up to 4GB and Dual Channel DDR2 1066 (4 x DIMM slots) with max. capacity up to 8GB.
- Supports ATI™ CrossFire™.
- 2 x PCI-E x16 slots (white @ x16 mode, purple @ x4 mode).
- Untied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed PCIE/ PCI Buses.
- Hybrid Booster - Safe Overclocking Technology.
- Supports PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s.
- 4 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions.
- 1 x eSerial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s connector.
- 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 HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec).
- Windows® Vista™ Premium 2007 Logo Ready.
- Supports I. O. T. (Intelligent Overclocking Technology), ASRock OC Tuner
- ASRock 8CH_eSATAII I/O Plus: 1 x eSATAII port, 4 ready-to-use USB ports.