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Aug 16, 2004, Taipei – While the heat of ASRock's unprecedented CPU Combo design concept is still lasting in the market, ASRock Inc, the leading price-performance motherboard maker, is proud to unveil a new K8 Combo series motherboard, ASRock K8 Combo-Z motherboard, which comes after AMD announced the new entry socket754 CPU: 32-bit AMD Sempron™ processor.
Based on the elaborate future-proof CPU socket combo design, ASRock K8 Combo-Z motherboard collocates both Socket 754 and Socket 939 CPU architectures on a single motherboard; users can enjoy the benefit of choosing any AMD socket754 CPU or socket939 CPU for K8 Combo-Z without concerning about the CPU transition impact or the socket type of the motherboard at the same time.
Future-proof CPU socket combo design
ASRock K8 Combo-Z motherboard is a wise choice for upgrade-demanded and budget-concerned users. Users can use legacy CPU (Socket 754) for the moment with less cost but still enjoy the possibility for the future upgrade to Socket 939 CPU. ASRock K8 Combo-Z motherboard provides the following benefits:
-The future-proof migration solution of CPU sockets
This motherboard contains both advanced 754-pin and 939-pin sockets. User can freely enjoy up-to-date CPU technology in PC system for years without changing the motherboard.
-Cost-effective upgrade feature
Users can choose Socket 478 CPU today and look forward to the future upgrade of LGA775 CPU when the LGA775 CPU price drops.
-Ready-to-use interface
The combo sockets are well designed and tested to fit both Socket 754 and Socket 939 standards.
ASRock K8 Combo-Z adopts Industry's Finest Integrated Single Chip
ASRock K8 Combo-Z adopts the new generation integrated single chip - ULi(ALi) M1689. With the industry's finest single chip, ASRock K8 Combo-Z offers a high-performance by utilizing AMD's HyperTransport™ Bus Technology and up to 2GT/Sec FSB capability to support from AMD 32-bit Sempron™ to 64-bit Athlon™ 64/ Athlon™ 64FX processors under the extraordinary Combo socket design. The complete memory support interface provides the Single Channel DIMM for socket754 CPU and also the Dual Channel DIMM for socket939 CPU to echo K8Combo-Z combo design. Over and above the support of traditional IDE ATA133/100, K8 Combo-Z provides a new generation storage interface – SerialATA, which provides 1.5Gb/s high-speed data transferring rate and RAID 0, 1, JBOD support. K8 Combo-Z is equipped with a superior 7.1-channel audio feature, which provides an ultimate 3D surround sound effect for stereo media with 7.1-channel speaker output, headphone output and microphone input interfaces. With these profuse advanced specifications and the extraordinary Combo socket design, the new ASRock K8 Combo-Z is the utmost performance socket754 and socket939 platform for users to experience the power of performance, flexibility of socket selection, and stability.
