5 PCI slots and 1 AGP Pro slot. Gigabit
Ethernet using Intel® 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
chipset. ITe I/O controller chip
ITE I/O IT8712F.
Realtek ALC655 CODEC for 6 ch audio.
The Socket 478, DPS slot, heatsink for the
north bridge.
2 ports for SATA RAID 0 (ICH5R), 2 IDE
channels for IDE RAID 0,0+1,1 using ITe GigaRAID chipset on board.
Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI chip supports UltraSCSI 320 on board.
6 DIMM slots supporting up to 4GB of
DDR266/DDR333/DDR400 using 184pin unbuffered ECC DDR allowing up to
6.4GB/s data transfer rate.
On the Gigabyte board, they
split Channel 2 and Channel 4 into 2 DIMMs respectively.
All supports double-sided RAM, but sometimes it might not
work perferctly depending on the individule brand and RAM quality, as RAM
are not standardized.
The beauty of the design is that it offers more possible
RAM combinations. Performance-wise no major difference.
Part of the 6 Dual miracle, the
DPS.
As described, connectors for IDE RAID by ITe
GigaRAID chipset, Dual BIOS, USB 2.0 connectors
ICS 952503DF Clock generator is used on
board.
and 2 x SCSI 320 connectors, SATA RAID 0
supported by ICH5R.
