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Thursday, September 1, 2005
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If you're building a new system and are planning to use SATA drives then the 955X7AA has plenty on offer. On top of the four SATA devices that the Intel chipset offer there's an additional Silicon Image controller that adds support for another four devices. In addition there's dual Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet contollers - one on the PCI Express bus and one PCI bus - as well as FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 support. That's not a bad set of features and the latest FireWire technology could be particularly useful if you need to shift a lot of large chunks of data using something like this external Maxtor FireWire 800 drive.
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Saturday, August 13, 2005
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Based on the high end Intel 955X chipset, the Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 motherboard obviously supports all the dual core goodness Intel is pimping right now, and the board comes with a great set of goodies. Standard features for the '-8EKRS2' version of the base Foxconn 955X7AA board are Intel's high definition Azalia audio controller, two Gigabit NICs, an additional Serial ATA/RAID controller and an IDE RAID controller. It's a highly integrated platform, but one which is still very upgradable thanks to the three PCI slots and three PCI Express x1 sockets in addition to the PCI Express x16 graphics port...
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