ASRock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 AM2 ATI CrossFire Radeon Xpress 1600 ATX AMD Motherboard

General
CPU
- Support for Socket AM2+* / AM2 processors: AMD Phenom™ FX / Phenom / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core / Athlon X2 Dual-Core / Athlon 64 / Sempron processor

- AMD LIVE!™ Ready

- Supports AMD's Cool 'n' Quiet Technology

- FSB 1000 MHz (2.0 GT/s)

- Supports Untied Overclocking Technology

- Supports Hyper-Transport Technology

*If you use AM2+ CPU on AM2 chipset motherboard, the system bus speed will downgrade from HT3.0 (5200 MT/s) to HT1.0 (2000 MT/s), but the CPU frequency will not be influenced.
Chipset
- Northbridge: AMD 480X CrossFire™

- Southbridge: ATI™ SB600
Memory
- Dual Channel DDR2 memory technology

- 4 x DDR2 DIMM slots

- Supports DDR2 1066*/800/667/533 non-ECC, un-buffered memory

- Max. capacity of system memory: 16GB**

*Support with AM2+ CPU.



**Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows® XP, Windows® Vista™ and Windows® Vista™ 64-bit. For Windows® XP 64-bit with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation.
BIOS
- 4Mb AMI BIOS

- AMI Legal BIOS

- Supports "Plug and Play"

- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events

- Supports Jumperfree

- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support
Audio, Video and Networking
Graphics
- n/a
Audio
- 7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec)
LAN
- PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s

- Realtek RTL8111B

- Supports Wake-On-LAN
Expansion / Connectivity
Slots
- Supports ATI™ CrossFire™

- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot with PCIE Switch card or 2 x PCI Express Graphics slots for ATI™ CrossFire™

- 1 x PCI Express x1 slot

- 3 x PCI slots
Connector
- 4 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions

- 2 x eSATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors (shared with 2 SATAII ports), support RAID (RAID 0 and RAID 1), NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions

- 1 x ATA133 IDE connector (supports 2 x IDE devices)

- 1 x Floppy connector

- 1 x IR header

- 1 x Game header

- 1 x HDMI_SPDIF header

- CPU/Chassis FAN connector

- 20 pin ATX power connector

- 4 pin 12V power connector

- SLI/XFire power connector

- CD in header

- Front panel audio connector

- 4 x USB 2.0 headers (support 8 USB 2.0 ports)
Rear Panel I/O
ASRock 8CH_eSATAII I/O

- 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port

- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port

- 1 x Serial Port: COM1

- 1 x Parallel Port (ECP/EPP Support)

- 2 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports

- 2 x eSATAII Ports

- 1 x RJ-45 Port

- HD Audio Jack: Side Speaker / Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone
Other Features / Miscellaneous
Hybrid Booster
- CPU Frequency Stepless Control

- ASRock U-COP

- Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G.)

- ASRock AM2 Boost: ASRock Patented Technology to boost memory performance up to 12.5%
Support CD
- Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version)
Accessories
- Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield

- Floppy/ATA 133 Cables

- 4 x SATA Data Cables (optional)

- 2 x SATA 1 to 1 Power Cables (optional)

- 1 x HDMI_SPDIF Cable (optional)

- 1 x USB Bracket

- 1 x PCIE Switch Card
Hardware Monitor
- CPU Internal Temperature Sensing

- CPU Ambient Temperature Sensing

- Chassis Temperature Sensing

- CPU Fan Tachometer

- Chassis Fan Tachometer

- CPU Quiet Fan

- Voltage Monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, Vcore
Form Factor
- ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 8.2-in, 30.5 cm x 20.8 cm
OS
- Microsoft® Windows® 2000 / XP / XP Media Center / XP 64-bit / Vista™ / Vista™ 64-bit compliant
Certifications
- FCC, CE, WHQL