Five PCI slots and three DIMM sockets should be sufficient for most applications. The codec chip from Analog Devices enables an AC97 compliant sound system. Eight LEDs permanently display the system status. Especially during booting this function can quite often act like a debug card and simplify the search for errors significantly. Luckily AOpen decided against the AMR slot.
Appropriate cards are hard to come by anyway.
Wake On Modem that should wake the system from sleep mode for an incoming call. Similar to Chaintech and Epox AOpen specifies a maximum memory of 768 MByte even though the chipset allows twice as much. A7V Click here to find lowest prices on motherboards. The Tom's Hardware Guide Power Box Columns Perspective on ATI Copyright of all documents and scripts belonging to this site by Thomas Pabst 1996 - 2001. Most of the information contained on this site is copyrighted material.