Worldwide first Windows^® Vista™ Premium/Basic Logo Hardware Ready motherboards are born! 775XFire-VSTA

Based on Intel^® i925X and ICH6R, 775XFire-VSTA supports FSB800MHz, PCI Express x 16 and AGI Express supporting CrossFire™ Technology, Dual Channel DDRII533, 7.1 High Definition Audio. And most significant of all, it is a Windows^® Vista™ Premium Logo Hardware Ready motherboard……ASRock 775XFire-VSTA

June 1^st, 2006, Taipei

With reputation of always considerate, creativity and cost-effective, ASRock has released a series of Windows^® Vista™ Hardware Ready models that based on some cost-effective chipsets. Of all practical and high-functional chipsets, ASRock had designed Windows^® Vista™ Ready model with Intel^® 925X and ICH6R chipsets – 775XFire-VSTA.

Literally, it is obvious that 775XFire-VSTA supports CrossFire™ Technology and Windows^® Vista™, and you are right about that. With PCI Express x 16 slot and AGI Express slot designed, this motherboard supports the powerful VGA performance enhancing Technology - CrossFire™. Another thrill about 775XFire-VSTA is that it is a Windows^® Vista™ Premium Logo Hardware Ready motherboard. You may update your system to Windows^® Vista™ Premium version, which the motherboard is already standby for that, when the new fascinating operating system is officially announced in the following months.

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 elementsthat you can see through.

In addition to Windows^® Vista™ support, 775XFire-VSTA comes with Dual Channel memory of DDRII533 with 4 x DIMM slots, maximum capacity up to 4GB, which is really sufficient for either office or personal use. As for the audio part, this motherboard also comes with 7.1 High Definition Audio, which provides high quality audio and jack fool-proof function, and also one of the main requirements for Windows^® Vista™ support. With ICH6R support, 775XFire-RAID even supports 4 x Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s, RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, and Intel^® Matrix Storage), NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions.

Last but not least, you will find a new header named HDMI_SPDIF header on your ASRock motherboard this time, which is a new feature from ASRock exclusively. HDMI_SPDIF header, providing SPDIF audio output to HDMI VGA card, allows the system to connect HDMI Digital TV/projector/LCD devices. For installation, please check the manual.

Here are 775XFire-VSTA brief specifications:

• LGA 775 for Intel^® Pentium^® 4 / Celeron^® D processors, supporting Cedar Mill processor
• Intel^® 925X + ICH6R chipsets
• Supports FSB 800/533 MHz processor, EM64T CPU and H-T Technology
• Supports ATi CrossFire™ Technology
• Dual Channel DDRII533 x 4 DIMM slots
• Hybrid Booster - Safe Overclocking Technology 
• 1 x PCI Express x 16 slot
• Additional ASRock A.G.I. Express slots to adopt 2^nd PCI Express x16 VGA card, and other PCI Express x4, x2, x1 interface cards
• 1 x PCI Express x 1 slot 
• 4 x Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, and Intel^® Matrix Storage), NCQ, AHCI, "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 Channel with High Definition Audio
• Windows^® Vista™ Premium Logo Hardware Ready
• HD 8CH I/O: 4 ready-to-use USB ports, HD 7.1 channel audio jack