ASRock’s 775Dual-VSTA ATX Intel Motherboard is one of the first that developed specifically to be ready for Windows Vista™. Incorporating Hyper-Threading Technology and designed for untied overclocking, this board is ready to be built up with a collection of top-end components. A maximum of 2GB of DDR266/333/400 RAM lets you keep older RAM for now and upgrade to the latest and greatest later.
Your serial, parallel and 4 USB ports will let you tie in multiple peripherals, and 4 PCI and 1 PCI-E slots and 1 AGP slot give you room for all the plug-in cards you might want. Your ears will be as impressed as your eyes with a Realtek ALC888-8 channel audio Codec, connecting with HDMI-S/PDIF connectors which would allow you to feed your sound into an HDMI digital TV, and LCD TV, or a projector. This is a true multimedia machine ready to meet your tests!
- VIA PT880 Pro+VT8237A ChipsetFeaturing VIA's revolutionary Universal Graphics Interface (UGI), the VIA PT880 Pro supports the latest generation PCI Express graphics cards and existing AGP 3.0 graphics cards. The VIA PT880 Pro-based motherboards support VIA DualGFX Express by running both AGP and PCI Express graphics cards simultaneously enabling connections to as many as four separate displays.
- Intel Core 2 Duo Processor SupportThis motherboard supports the next-generation LGA 775 Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe) processors. Utilizing Intel's brand-new Core microarchitecture technology, the Intel Core 2 Duo processors are considered some of the most powerful and energy efficient CPUs in the world.
- AGP 8X and PCI Express Graphics SupportThe 775Dual-VSTA features a highly flexible and scalable architecture with an AGP 8X port and PCI Express port for graphics card support providing the maximum flexibility and expandability.
- Serial ATA with RAIDThe revolutionary Serial ATA interface provides scalable performance for storage devices. SATA technology enables easy-to-install, high-performance and low-power hard drives. Two SATA ports support RAID 0 and RAID 1 for better performance and data security respectively.
- HDMI Interface ReadyThe 775Dual-VSTA is designed with the exciting new HDMI_SPDIF header to provide S/PDIF audio output to a separate HDMI video card which in turn allows the system to connect to external HDMI Digital TVs, projectors or LCD devices.