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 Sapphire Pure Crossfire A9RD480
There was something we meant to say .. but we forgot
(Review by MS, Dec 22 2005)
AMD Athlon64 X2-3800+



At One Glance

Sapphire PC-A9RD480 - Click for larger picture


CPU
  • AMDŽ Athlon 64 X2
  • Athlon 64 FX
  • Athlon 64
  • Sempron Socket 939
Chipset
  • ATI RD480 x SB450 Chipset
Front Side Bus
  • 2000MT/s HyperTransport interface
Memory
  • Four 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets
  • Supports dual channel (128-bit wide) memory interface
  • Supports up to 4GB system memory
  • Supports DDR266, DDR333 and DDR400 DDR SDRAM DIMM
BIOS
  • Award BIOS
  • 4Mbit flash memory
  • PnP, APM, ATAPI and Windows 2000/XP
  • Full support of ACPI & DMI
  • Auto detects and supports LBA harddisks with capacities over 160GB
  • Easy to upgrade BIOS
  • Supports Plug and Play specification 1.1
  • Plug and Play for Windows 2000 and XP
  • Fully assignable PCI interrupts
  • Extensive Overclocking settings
Power Management
  • Supports SMM, APM and ACPI
  • Hardware monitoring circuit, voltage, fan speed etc. monitoring
  • Wake-On-LAN (WOL) support
  • Supports Suspend-To-RAM (STR)
  • AC power failure recovery
Hardware Monitor
  • Monitors CPU/system/chipset temperature
  • Monitors 12V/5V/3.3V/Vcore/Vbat/5Vsb/Vchipset/Vdram voltages
  • Monitors the speed of the CPU fan, Fan 2 and chipset fan
  • CPU Overheat Protection function monitors CPU temperature during system boot-up
Audio
  • Integrated Realtek ALC880 controller
  • Fully Sound and Sound Blaster compatible
  • Full-Duplex 4 24-bit two-channel DACs and 3 stereo 20-bit ADCs
  • PnP and APM 1.2 support
  • Windows 2000/XP drivers ready
  • Line-In, Line-out, Mic-in, SPDIF-in, SPDIF-out
  • Supports ALC880 codec for eight channel sound output
LAN
  • Onboard Marvell 88E8052 PCI Express Gigabit LAN
  • Full compliance with IEEE 802.3u 100 Base-T specifications and IEEE 802.3X Full Duplex Flow Control
  • 10 Mb/s, 100 Mb/s and 1000 Mb/s operation
  • Wake-On-LAN function and remote wake-up
ATA
  • Two IDE connectors for four UltraDMA 133Mbps hard drives
  • Onchip SiliconImage 3112R Serial ATA Host Controller
    • Independent DMA operation on four ports
    • Data transfer rates of 1.5 Gb/s
    • RAID 0/1 feature support
  • Onboard Serial ATA-II Host Silicon Image 3132 Controller
    • Independent DMA operation on 2 ports
    • Data transfer rates of 300 MB/s
    • RAID 0/1/5 support
IEEE 1394
  • VIA VT6307
  • Supports two 100/200/400 Mb/sec ports
Rear Panel I/O Ports
  • 1 mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port
  • 1 mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port
  • 6 analog audio jacks
  • 1 IEEE 1394 port
  • 1 RJ45 LAN ports
  • 4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports
I/O Connectors
  • 2 connectors for 4 additional external USB 2.0/1.1 ports
  • 1 connector for 1 external IEEE 1394 port
  • 1 connector for 1 external serial port
  • 1 CD-in internal audio connector
  • 1 S/PDIF connector
  • 1 IR connector
  • 6 Serial ATA connectors
  • 2 IDE connectors
  • 1 floppy connector
  • 1 24-pin ATX power connector
  • 1 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
  • 1 4-pin 5V/12V power connectors (Molex type)
  • 1 front panel connector
  • 6 fan connectors
  • EZ touch switches (power switch and reset switch)
Expansion Slots
  • 2 PCI Express x16 slots
  • 2 PCI slots
PCB
  • ATX form factor
  • 24cm (9.45") x 30.5cm (12")

RADEON X850 CrossFire Edition

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