1.2 Specifications

Platform:

ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 8.0-in, 30.5 cm x 20.3 cm

CPU:

775-Pin Socket

 

supporting Intel® Pentium® 4 / Celeron® D processor (in 775-land

 

LGA package)

Chipsets:

North Bridge:

 

Intel® 915PL chipset, FSB @ 800 / 533MHz,

 

supports Hyper-Threading Technology (see CAUTION 1)

 

South Bridge:

 

Intel® ICH6, supports SATA 1.5Gb/s

Memory:

2 DDR DIMM slots: DDR1 and DDR2

 

supports PC3200 (DDR400) / PC2700 (DDR333),

 

Max. 2GB

 

Dual Channel Memory Technology support(see CAUTION 2)

IDE:

IDE1: ATA 100 / Ultra DMA Mode 5, supports up to 2 IDE devices

Serial ATA:

Supports up to 4 SATA devices at 1.5Gb/s data transfer rate

 

(No Support for “RAID” and “Hot Plug” functions)

Serial ATA II:

1 SATA II device at 3.0Gb/s data transfer rate

 

(Supports “Hot Plug” function)

Floppy Port:

Supports up to 1 floppy disk drive

Audio:

7.1 channels AC’97 Audio

PCI LAN:

Speed: 802.3u (10/100 Ethernet), supports Wake-On-LAN

Hardware Monitor:CPU temperature sensing,

 

Chassis temperature sensing,

 

CPU overheat shutdown to protect CPU life

 

(ASRock U-COP)(see CAUTION 3),

 

CPU fan tachometer,

 

CPU Quiet Fan support,

 

Chassis fan tachometer,

 

Voltage monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, Vcore

PCI slots:

4 PCI slots with PCI Specification 2.2

PCI EXPRESS slots: 1 slot with PCIE x 16, 1 slot with PCIE x 1; PCIE Specification 1.0a

AGI EXPRESS slot: 1 slot with PCI Express x 4, supports PCI Express x 16 Graphic

 

Card (see CAUTION 4)

USB 2.0:

8 USB 2.0 ports:

 

includes 4 default USB 2.0 ports on the rear panel,

 

plus two headers to support 4 additional USB 2.0 ports

 

(see CAUTION 5)

ASRock 8CH I/O: 1 PS/2 Mouse Port, 1 PS/2 Keyboard Port

1 Serial Port: COM1

1 Parallel Port (ECP/EPP Support)

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ASRock 775i915PL-SATA2 manual Specifications

775i915PL-SATA2 specifications

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