ASRock ALiveNF5SLI-1394 Motherboard Preview


This article shows you a preview of the current ASRock ALiveNF5SLI-1394 Mainboard.

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The new ASRock ALiveNF5SLI-1394 Motherboard …

Let us begin with the newest motherboard from ASRock, the ALiveNF5SLI-1394. The ALiveNF5SLI-1394 is unfortunately not available on the market, yet, but it is looking very great. Thanks to the nVidia NF500SLI chipset it supports two PCI Express Slots for SLI operation and of course it should be very inexpensive. It would have been nice to have the Realtek ALC888 soundchip instead of the C-Media CM6501, but we can’t get everything for little money …

The manufacturers technical data for the ASRock ALiveNF5SLI-1394 Motherboard …

– Socket AM2 for AMD Athlon 64FX / 64X2 / X2 / 64 and Sempron processors – AMD LIVE! Ready – FSB 1000MHz (2.0GT/s), Hyper-Transport Technology and AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology – Supports Dual Channel DDRII800/667/533 x 4 DIMM slots, maximum capacity up to 8GB – ASRock AM2 Boost: ASRock Patented Technology to boost memory performance up to 12.5% – Supports NVIDIA SLI – 1 x PCI Express x 16 slot, 2 x PCI Express x 8 slots – 4 x Serial ATA II 3.0 Gb/s, support RAID (RAID 0/1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, JBOD), NCQ and Hot Plug – 1 x eSerial ATA II 3.0 Gb/s (shared with 1 SATAII port), supports NCQ and Hot Plug – Supports Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s – Supports 2 x IEEE1394 ports (one port on back panel, one header on board) – HDMI_SPDIF header, providing SPDIF audio output to HDMI VGA card, allows the system to connect HDMI Digital TV/ projector/LCD devices – 7.1 CH Windows Vista Premium Level Superior Audio (C-Media CM6501 Audio Codec with UAA architecture) – Windows VistaTM Premium 2007 Logo Ready – Supports Windows XP Media Center Edition

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