ASRock
939Dual-VSTA ULi M1695 Review Intro 1/6 Bluetooth 18 Aug 2005
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Last year, we
reviewed the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2. There were lots of discussions of this
outstanding board that provided a good price point for Socket 939 users. ASRock
939Dual-VSTA is supposedly the newer edition of this board which makes this
board VISTA Hardware Ready.
If you remember, ULi M1695 paired with its southbridge M1567 is
the first Athlon 64 / FX / X2 supporting chipsets allowing you to tap the power
of your old high end AGP 8x graphics card at native speeds. On top of that, it
also supports a PCIe x 16 slots for graphics cards. With its T.G.I technology,
you can add on another PCI graphics card and do a 6 monitor screen surround
video output. The chipset was quite
overclockable and performed as good as NF4 Ultra boards and
SLI.
Most of the functions like
Jmicron SATA II controller to boost the HDD performance. Not only that it has a
FUTURE_CPU_PORT for the AM2 CPU
Board which we have reviewed before.
ASrock 939Dual-VSTA is Vista™ Premium Logo
Hardware Readyfull fledge ATX board based on the ULi M1695/M1567. It
supports the Socket 939 AMD Athlon 64x2, 64, FX, Sempron processors with a FSB
of 1GHz of HTT. It supports cool n quiet, 4 GB of Dual channel DDR 400. It has 1
AGP 8x, 1 PCIe x16 slot,1 PCIex1 slot and Future CPU Upgrade Slot. This board
offers 2 IDE channels for connecting 4 IDE HDDs and 2 SATA ports for SerialATA 1.5Gb/s, RAID 0,1,JBOD.
There is another SATA II 3.0Gb/s SATA connector for a third SATA HDD. Audio
wise,
7.1 ch HD audio is supported using Cmedia codec. It has 4 ready to be used USB 2.0
ports with 4 more thru expansion cables. There is no GbE but it is equipped with
Fast Ethernet LAN.
The board also
supports ASRock U-COP, Boot Failure
Guard, CPU Multiplier Adj,
CPU Vcore Voltage Adj, CPU Freq Stepless Control,
AGP/PCIE Freq Control, DIMM Voltage
Adj, CPU Quiet FAN.
Vccm (DRAM): Low (2.6v), Normal (2.7v), High (2.8v)
- 1 x
Future CPU Port (Supports CPU upgrade from AMD Socket 939 CPU to Socket AM2
CPU through AM2CPU Board)
- 3 x PCI slots
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot
- 1 x PCI Express x1 slot
- 1 x AGP 8X slot
Graphics
- n/a
Audio
-
C-Media CM6501 7.1 channel audio compliant with UAA architecture
- 2 x
Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD) and "Hot
Plug" functions
- 1 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s connector by JMicron JMB 360 (PCIE x1
interface), supports NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions
- 2 x ATA133 IDE connectors (support 4 x IDE devices)
- 1 x Floppy connector
- 1 x IR header
- 1 x Game header
- CPU/Chassis FAN connector
- 20 pin ATX power connector
- 4 pin 12V power connector
- CD in header
- Front panel audio connector
- 1 x USB 2.0 header (supports 2 USB 2.0 ports)
Rear Panel I/O
ASRock 8CH I/O
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port
- 1 x Serial Port: COM1
- 1 x Parallel Port (ECP/EPP Support)
- 4 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports
- 1 x RJ-45 Port
- Audio Jack: Side Speaker / Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front
Speaker / Microphone
BIOS Feature
- 4Mb
AMI BIOS
- AMI Legal BIOS
- Supports "Plug and Play"
- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events
- Supports jumperfree
- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support
- CPU
Temperature Sensing
- Chassis Temperature Sensing
- CPU Fan Tachometer
- Chassis Fan Tachometer
- CPU Quiet Fan
- Voltage Monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, Vcore
Accessories
-
Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield
- Floppy/ATA 133 cables
- 1 x SATA data cable (optional)
- 1 x SATA 1 to 1 power cable (optional)
Form Factor
- ATX Form
Factor: 12.0-in x 9.6-in, 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm
OS
- Microsoft® Windows® 2000 / XP /
XP 64-bit / Vista™ compliant
