ASRock has Intel P31 chipset mainboard - 4Core1333-eSATA2

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It comes as a surprise as 2nd tier manufacturer ASRock is using newer chipset these days. In our hands is their newest member, the ASRock 4Core1333-eSATA2 mainboard. It no longer uses 945G chipset or P965. Instead, it uses the latest P31 chipset and supports DDR2-800. Not only that, this board supports eSATA, 1394, RAID and CrossFire.

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- f) F! T3 t8 ]  x; ALGA 775 for Intel® Core™ 2 Quad / Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® XE / Pentium® D / Pentium® Dual Core / Pentium® 4 / Celeron® / Celeron® D, supporting Quad Core Kentsfield processors
Intel® P31/G31 + ICH7R Chipsets
Compatible with all FSB1333/1066/800/533MHz CPUs
Supports Dual Channel DDRII800/667/533 x 4 DIMM slots, with max. capacity up to 4GB
/ b; c1 W& W6 ^( ^2 ESupports ATI™ CrossFire™
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Additional AGI Express slot to adopt 2nd PCI Express x16 VGA card, and other PCI Express x4, x2, x1 interface cards
Untied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed PCIE/ PCI Buses
Hybrid Booster - Safe Overclocking Technology
Supports PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
Supports 2 x IEEE1394 ports (one port on back panel, one header on board)
4 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel® Matrix Storage), NCQ and AHCI functions
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HDMI_SPDIF header, providing SPDIF audio output to HDMI VGA card, allows the system to connect HDMI Digital TV/projector/LCD devices.
7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec)
Windows® Vista™ Premium 2007 Logo Ready
# B# L' Z$ s5 t" d8 k' ^ASRock 1394_eSATAII I/O Plus: 1 eSATAII port, 1 x IEEE 1394 port, 4 ready-to-use USB ports