This article shows you a preview of the current ASRock 939Dual-VSTA Mainboard.

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The new ASRock 939Dual-VSTA Motherboard …

Let us begin with the new Socket 939 board, the ASRock 939Dual-VSTA. It is technically seen the pendant to the well-known 939Dual-SATA2 Motherboard, however in the new VSTA Version it got the C-Media CM6501 audio chip instead of the Realtek 850 sound chip. Hereby the board became – according to ASRock – suited for Microsoft Windows Vista Premium OS. If there’re innovations in view of the overclocking and the BIOS, we’ll see in the soon coming Review.

The manufacturers technical data for the ASRock 939Dual-VSTA Motherboard …

Socket 939 for AMD Athlon Athlon 64FX / Athlon 64X2 / Athlon 64 Processors ULi M1695 Chipset Supports FSB 1000MHz (2.0GT/s) 1 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s connector by JMicron JMB 360 (PCIE x 1 interface), support NCQ, AHCI and “Hot Plug” functions. 2 x Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s, support RAID 0, 1, JBOD and “Hot Plug” functions 1 x Future CPU Port (Supports CPU upgrade from AMD Socket 939 CPU to Socket AM2 CPU through AM2 CPU Board) 7.1 CH Windows Vista Premium Level Superior Audio (C-Media CM6501 Audio Codec with UAA architecture) Supports Dual Channel DDR400, 4 x DIMM slots 1 x PCI Express x16 and 1 x AGP 8X VGA card interface to adopt both PCI Express and AGP display card Windows Vista Premium Logo Hardware Ready

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