Oct. 5th, 2006, Taipei

Year 2006 is fascinating! You see a lot of new features from chipset vendors and from PC makers. For one, AMD is releasing its AMD ALIVE!™ Ready to fight with Intel’s Viiv system. For ASRock, we are ready for the battle. ALiveNF6G-DVI is a newly released NVIDIA^® NF6100-430 motherboard featuring AMD LIVE!™, powerful graphics ability of DX9.0 VGA, Pixel Shader 3.0 and max. shared memory of 256MB. In addition, you will see additional features from ASRock motherboard, such as Gigabit LAN support, Windows^® Vista™ Premium Logo H/W Ready and new design of Dual VGA Output.

ALiveNF6G-DVI is one feature-abundant motherboard. It supports socket AM2 for AMD Athlon™ 64FX / 64X2 / 64 and Sempron Processors, and is capable of running at 1000MHz (2.0GT/s). It is designed with 4 DIMM slots of Dual Channel DDRII800/667/533 with maximum capacity up to 8GB, PCI Express x 16 slots and 7.1 CH Vista™ Premium level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec), support of integrated NVIDIA^® GeForce6-class graphics DX9.0 VGA , Pixel Shader 3.0 and Max. shared memory up to 256MB. And to talk about transferring speed, ALiveNF6G-DVI is featuring 4 SATAII 3.0 Gb/s, support RAID (RAID 0, 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, JBOD), NCQ, and "Hot Plug" functions. It even comes with Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s, enabling faster network transferring speed.

Another interesting feature of ALiveNF6G-DVI, literally, is its support for DVI-D and D-Sub ports. With additional DVI Graphics-SI card added, you could have both DVI-D and D-Sub supported. You could easily connect your system to both CRT and LCD monitors.

To talk about operating system, Windows^® Vista™ operating system, of course, is what everyone expecting for. ALiveNF6G-DVI is Windows^® Vista™ Premium Logo Hardware Ready. To be qualified for Windows^® Vista™ Premium logo, there are some harsh requirements to be met, such as HD audio, DirectX 9.0 etc, and ALiveNF6G-DVI is fully compliant with those requirements.

Windows Vista™ Home Premium:

All computers that meet minimal hardware requirements will see the Windows^® Vista™ Basic user experience. Windows^® Aero is an environment with an additional level of visual sophistication for Home Premium user experience.

Windows^® Vista™ Aero provides spectacular visual effects such as glass-like interface elements that you can see through.

 

Here are ALiveNF6G-DVI brief specifications:

• Socket AM2 for AMD Athlon™ 64FX / 64X2 / 64 and Sempron Processors (Detailed support list is available on www.asrock.com/support/index.htm)
• NVIDIA^® NF6100-430 Chipset
• AMD LIVE!™ Ready
• Supports FSB 1000MHz (2.0GT/s), Hyper-Transport Technology and AMD Cool 'n' Quiet Technology
• Integrated NVIDIA^® GeForce6-class graphics DX9.0 VGA, Pixel Shader 3.0, Max. shared memory 256MB
• Supports Dual Channel DDRII800/667/533 with 4 x DIMM slots, maximum capacity up to 8GB
• ASRock AM2 Boost, ASRock Patented Technology to boost memory performance up to 12.5%
• Dual VGA output: support DVI-D and D-Sub ports with DVI Graphics-SI card by independent display controllers
• Hybrid Booster - ASRock Safe Overclocking Technology
• Untied Overclocking: FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed PCI/PCIE buses
• Supports Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
• 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, 1 x PCI Express x1 slot
• 4 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s, support RAID (RAID 0, 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, JBOD), NCQ, 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 CH Vista™ Premium level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec)
• Windows^® Vista™ Premium Logo Hardware Ready
• Supports Windows^® XP Media Center Edition
• HD 8CH I/O: 4 ready-to-use USB ports, HD 7.1 channel audio jacks