EPoX EP-AT690G Pro Motherboard Review - Specifications

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This board packs a host of goodies, so bear with me through the specs.

EPoX EP-AT690G Pro Specifications

CPU:
Socket-AM2 based AMD Athlon-X2/Athlon-64/Sempron processors

2.0GTs 16X16 wide Hyper Transport bus
Supports VMM (Virtualization-Machine-Monitoring)

System Memory:
Four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM sockets, color coded for dual channel
Support s1.8v DDR2-533/667/800 with dual channel architecture
Supports up to 16 GB system memory
Supports Asynchronous clocking mode between FSB and DIMM

Chipset:
AMD 690G for the Northbridge
ATI SB600 Chipset for the Southbridge
Integrated Radeon X700-based graphics processor
Multiple Display configuration: CRT+ DVI-D on rear panel
Supports ATi's innovative AVIVO display architecture

Audio:
Selectable 2 or 6 channel audio via Realtek ALC883

USB:
Ten USB2.0 connectors (4 on back panel, 6 internal)

Expansion Slots:
Three PCI connectors
Two PCI Express x1 connectors
One PCI Express x16 connector

IDE:
One IDE port (up to 2 IDE devices) with UDMA-33, ATA-66/100/133

SATA II:
Four SATA II ports from SB600 with RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and up to 3.0 GB/ps bandwidth

LAN:
Gigabit Ethernet from onboard RTL8111B Gigabit Ethernet Controller

I/O:
PS/2 keyboard & mouse
Floppy Drive Connector
2 COM ports (motherboard pins)
IrDA (v1.0 compliant)

BIOS Features:
4Mb Flash EEPROM with Award Plug & Play BIOS
Supports EZ Boot (fast bootable device selection)
Support Magic Health (system hardware status report during system boot-up)

Special Features:
Support Keyboard Power ON function
Support Wake-On-LAN

Onboard EZ-Button for convenient power-on and reset
Supports Thermal Stick
Supports Ghost BIOS for BIOS recovery
Supports CPU Over Heat protection

EPoX Included Utilities (Windows only):
Thunder Probe diagnostic utility
Thunder Flash BIOS update utility
Magic Screen for personal boot screens

Form Factor:
ATX

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· Great motherboard. Not fair of me to expect too much from the onboard graphics, but...    · Just one question, why were you not running it in dual channel mode? Unless you...    · I'll be interesting to see more details on the chipset when they are released - it...    · The pictures you see are in dual channel mode. EPoX seems to make it a habit to put...    · Ya I apologize, I'm so used to dual channel being slots 1 and 3. Never really makes...   >>> Post your comment now!

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