ASRock is proud to release the AGP+PCI E slots motherboard - ALiveDual-eSATA2, based on NVIDIA^® M1695 and nForce3 250 Chipsets!

     

For users craving for both PCI Express x 16 slot and AGP 8X slot, here comes the good news! ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 is based on a combination of NVIDIA^® M1695 and nForce3 250 Chipsets supporting the latest AMD Phenom™ X4 / X2 CPU. In addition to the latest CPU support and the dual VGA slots, this AMD LIVE!™ Ready motherboard also supports both SATA & SATAII connectors, convenient eSATAII connector, and many other excellent features.

ALiveDual-eSATA2

Nov. 19^th, 2007, Taipei

To be able to stand out among the crowd in the PC industry is not easy, but ASRock had successfully made its name in the market by its 3C concepts - Considerate, Creative and Cost-effectiveness. Once again, ASRock is ahead of its peers, the first one to release Socket AM2 motherboard based on NVIDIA^® M1695 and nForce3 250 chipsets. ALiveDual-eSATA2, is a "Dual" series motherboard that is scalable and full-functional. ALiveDual-eSATA2 is AMD LIVE!™ ready, designed with both PCI Express x16 and AGP 8X slots, SATA and SATAII connectors, eSATAII port and PCIE Gigabit LAN functions. Most of all, this motherboard supports the coming-soon AMD Phenom™ X4 / X2 CPU!

The AMD Phenom™ X4 / X2 CPU, AMD's latest dual and quad-core chips, which features DDR2 SDRAM, HyperTransport , shared L3 cache, and the Socket AM2 and AM2+ interface is one of the most important features here. ALiveDual-eSATA2 provides a full range of CPU selection here from AMD Phenom™ X4 / X2, Athlon 64FX / 64X2 / X2 / 64 to Sempron processors.

Both PCI Express x16 and AGP 8X slots design have always been one of the favorite designs for end-users, and ASRock realized their needs. With PCI Express x16 and AGP 8X slots both designed, users may utilize whatever graphics cards they got on their hands. This Dual VGA combination of ALiveDual-eSATA2 is interesting because users may test both cards on their systems to find out the optimal configurations for best performance.

For hard disk storage part, ALiveDual-eSATA2 is designed with both SATA and SATAII connectors supporting RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD) and "Hot Plug" functions as well. This creative design is also one of the consideration designs from ASRock. Users may utilize either SATA hard disks or SATAII hard disks depends on what hard disk format they got. For users fond of eSATAII port design, ALiveDual-eSATA2 also makes things easy and convenient for you by providing eSATAII port at the Rear Panel I/O.

ALiveDual-eSATA2 also supports practical features such as Dual Channel DDRII800 memory, 4 x DIMM slots, with maximum capacity up to 8GB, PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s and Vista™ Premium. This new hot release is designed with exclusive HDMI_SPDIF header, which provides SPDIF audio output to HDMI VGA card, and allows the system to connect HDMI Digital TV/projector/LCD devices.

Here are ALiveDual-eSATA2 brief specifications:

• 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
• Supports AMD LIVE!™ Technology
• Supports Dual Channel DDRII800/667/533, 4 x DIMM slots, with max. capacity up to 8GB
• Untied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed AGP/PCIE/ PCI Buses
• Hybrid Booster - Safe Overclocking Technology
• 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
• 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
• HDMI_SPDIF header, providing SPDIF audio output to HDMI VGA card, allows the system to connect HDMI Digital TV/projector/LCD devices.
• 1 x WiFi header
• 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