werty316
06-30-2006, 06:33 AM
Damn this thing is huge and its not as bad as I thought it would be except for that fact aftermarket cooling is out the door. Upto 8GB of memory!?!? who actually would have that much memory?
If you have been following OCWorkbench and our reviews of ASrock products, there were lots of interest in the upgradable boards namely the K8 Upgrade series. The K8 Upgrade Series boards comes with a Yellow slot which looks like a regular PCIe slot. It is labelled FUTURE_CPU_PORT.
If you own one of those boards, you can upgrade to the AM2 platform by installing the AM2 CPU board with AM2 CPU + DDR2 memory. Thus you can save and prolong the usage of your board.
As most of the boards we have seen are either PCIe or AGP based, our readers requested we test it using the ever popular ASrock 939Dual-SATA2 based on the ULi m1695 chipset.
Well, we will do so accordingly and see if the performance matches those AM2 boards using NV chipsets.http://img12.imagevenue.com/loc2/th_29161_Picture_6409_copy1_2lo.jpg (http://img12.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=29161_Picture_6409_copy1_2lo.jpg) http://img41.imagevenue.com/loc201/th_29166_Picture_6409_copy_201lo.jpg (http://img41.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=29166_Picture_6409_copy_201lo.jpg)
Source (http://www.ocworkbench.com/2006/asrock/AM2%20CPU%20Board/g1.htm)
If you have been following OCWorkbench and our reviews of ASrock products, there were lots of interest in the upgradable boards namely the K8 Upgrade series. The K8 Upgrade Series boards comes with a Yellow slot which looks like a regular PCIe slot. It is labelled FUTURE_CPU_PORT.
If you own one of those boards, you can upgrade to the AM2 platform by installing the AM2 CPU board with AM2 CPU + DDR2 memory. Thus you can save and prolong the usage of your board.
As most of the boards we have seen are either PCIe or AGP based, our readers requested we test it using the ever popular ASrock 939Dual-SATA2 based on the ULi m1695 chipset.
Well, we will do so accordingly and see if the performance matches those AM2 boards using NV chipsets.http://img12.imagevenue.com/loc2/th_29161_Picture_6409_copy1_2lo.jpg (http://img12.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=29161_Picture_6409_copy1_2lo.jpg) http://img41.imagevenue.com/loc201/th_29166_Picture_6409_copy_201lo.jpg (http://img41.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=29166_Picture_6409_copy_201lo.jpg)
Source (http://www.ocworkbench.com/2006/asrock/AM2%20CPU%20Board/g1.htm)