Date: July 29th, 2003
Article by: Nathan Glentworth (Owner, Head Editor & Hardware Reviewer)
Product was donated by: Chaintech
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PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

Form Factor

-ATX (305mm x 244mm)

CPU

-Supports Intel Socket 478 CPU with Hyper-Threading Technology
-Supports Intel Celeron/Pentium4 system bus at 400/533/800MHz

Chipset

-Intel 875P + ICH5R, supports Hyper-Threading Technology

Main Memory

-Four 184-pin DDR DIMMs up to 4GB
-Supports Dual-Channel DDR266/333/400 ECC/non-ECC memory and Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT)

Expansion Slots

-One 1.5V AGP slot for 8X/4X AGP
-Five 32-Bit PCI slots (v2.2 compliant)
-One CMR (Chaintech Multimedia Riser) for Chaintech Multimedia Card (CMC 7.1)

Audio Subsystem

-On-board 7.1-Channel audio
-24-bit resolution audio format support
-Sampling rates up to 96KHz
-Multi-channel AC-link supported alternatively
-Supports SPDIF Out

Video Subsystem

-Video 4X/8X AGP

UltraDMA IDE Ports

-Supports PIO Mode 4 up to 16.6 Mbps, Multi-Word DMA Mode 2 and Ultra DMA mode 5 up to 100MB/s with Bus Mastering
-Bus-Mastering software drivers for all common multitasking operating systems

Embedded USB Controller

-Three EHCI USB 2.0 Controllers support total 8 USB 2.0/1.1 Ports
-Support USB 2.0 High-Speed Device @480 Mb/s Transfer Rates
-Optional USB adapters for additional USB2.0/1.1 ports

On Board Super I/O Controller

-ITE 8712 LPC I/O with system monitors hardware
-Two UARTs support serial ports and IR function (up to 115.2Kbps) for HPSIR and ASKIR
-One SPP/ECP/EPP parallel port
-One floppy disk drive connector supports up to 2.88MB

Embedded system monitoring

8 external voltage inputs
2 temperatures sensing for CPU and system
3 Fan speed (CPU, system and Case) monitoring

Boot-Block Flash ROM

-Award system BIOS support PnP, APM, DMI, ACPI, & Multi-device booting features

Software

-Driver CD (Chipset Autodetect) (WinDVD 7.1CH included)
-Value Pack 2002/2003
-APOGEE Overclocking

(Other Features)

Back panel I/O connector

-One PS/2 mini-DIN mouse and keyboard ports
-Four USB Ports and two RJ45 connectors
-Two 9-pin D-SUB male Serial ports
-One 25-pin D-SUB female Parallel port
-Audio Line-in, Line-out and Mic-in jacks

Dual LAN

--IntelR PRO/1000CT Network Connection (Gigabit LAN)

-On-board Intel® 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller supports 2X Gigabit performance through Communication Streaming Architecture and enable ASF 2.0-based secure remote management

--Fast Ethernet Controller

-On-board Realtek RTL8101L supports 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet

On-board SATA RAID Controller

-Build-in ICH5R supports 2 Serial ATA devices for the highest data transfer rates (1.5Gbps burst) with RAID 0 solution standard for high speed data transfer

On-board VIA VT6306 IEEE1394 Host Controller

-Serial bus data rates of 100, 200 and 400Mbps
-IEEE P1394a compliant and IEEE 1394
-Programmable ATA/ATAPI interface supporting PIO modes 0-4, DMA modes 0-2 and Ultra DMA modes 0-4

On board connector for external device

-Three 3x1 pin fan connectors
-2x1 pin fan connector with housing for Northbridge
-Two 5x2 pin USB connectors for additional 2 USB2.0 ports, CIR and 6 in 1 Card Reader on CBOX3
-6x1 pin Infrared connector
-3x1 pin wake on LAN connector with housing
-3x1 pin wake on Modem connector with housing
-9x2 pin front panel connector
-5x2 pin Segment display connector for 2-digits Debug LED on CBOX3
-8x1 pin IEEE1394 connector with housing for IEEE1394 port on