Performance
| Motherboard form factor |
ATX |
Back panel I/O ports
| Parallel ports quantity |
1 |
| PS/2 ports quantity |
1 |
| Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports |
1 |
| S/PDIF out port |
Y |
| Microphone in |
Y |
| eSATA ports quantity |
2 |
| COM ports quantity |
1 |
Internal I/O
| USB 2.0 connectors |
3 |
| S/PDIF out connector |
Y |
| Number of SATA connectors |
4 |
| Number of Parallel ATA connectors |
1 |
| ATX Power connector (24-pin) |
Y |
| Floppy disk drive connector |
Y |
| CD/AUX audio in |
Y |
| Azalia Digital Header (ADH) connector |
N |
| CPU fan connector |
Y |
| Number of COM connectors |
1 |
| GAME/MIDI connector |
Y |
| EZ plug connector |
N |
| Chassis intrusion connector |
Y |
| Number of chassis fan connectors |
1 |
| Front panel audio connector |
Y |
Memory
| Non-ECC |
Y |
| Number of memory slots |
4 |
| Maximum internal memory |
4 GB |
Additionally
| Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports quantity |
1 |
ConRoeXFire-eSATA2, LGA 775 for Intel® Dual Core Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 / Celeron® D processors, Intel® 945P/945G + ICH7R Chipsets
- Supports FSB 1066/800/533 MHz processors and H-T Technology
- Untied Overclocking: During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed PCIE/ PCI Buses
- Supports Dual Channel DDRII667/533 x 4 DIMM slots, with max. capacity up to 4GB
- Supports ATI™ CrossFire™
- 1 x PCI Express x 16 slot
- Additional AGI Express slot to adopt 2nd PCI Express x 16 VGA card, and other PCI Express x4, x2, x1 interface cards
- 1 x PCI Express x 1 slot
- Hybrid Booster - Safe Overclocking Technology
- Supports PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
- Supports 2 x IEEE1394 headers
- 4 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel® Matrix Storage), NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions
- 2 x eSerial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s (shared with 2 SATAII ports), support "Hot Plug" function
- 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)
- Worldwide First MB with Windows® Vista™ Premium Logo
- Free Bundle: 1 x USB+1394 bracket, providing 2 additional USB 2.0 ports and 1 IEEE 1394 port
- ASRock 8CH_eSATAII I/O: 2 eSATAII ports, 2 ready-to-use USB ports