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.

Here is a photo shot of the board.
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Specs

8 E' ^+ ^$ k& G1 J7 v9 E9 I4Core1333-eSATA2 R5.0
* E& a& v6 g9 }- R/ q, nLGA 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
+ O5 T: g0 a/ B  Y8 Y4 b* }Intel® P31/G31 + ICH7R Chipsets
: t% _0 G6 v2 zCompatible with all FSB1333/1066/800/533MHz CPUs
Supports Dual Channel DDRII800/667/533 x 4 DIMM slots, with max. capacity up to 4GB
Supports ATI™ CrossFire™
1 x PCI Express x16 slot
Additional AGI Express slot to adopt 2nd PCI Express x16 VGA card, and other PCI Express x4, x2, x1 interface cards
! j' I3 J7 ~/ YUntied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed PCIE/ PCI Buses
6 u# k8 o) R; ]Hybrid Booster - Safe Overclocking Technology
* X4 K. h  o2 B4 v* |0 f) h4 pSupports PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
1 M  f# e3 R) }. i  CSupports 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
1 x eSerial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s (shared with 1 SATAII port)
& Z8 z( B  X" jHDMI_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)
9 y( t1 E: R! w2 k6 c- uWindows® Vista™ Premium 2007 Logo Ready
/ K6 H. V% M) LASRock 1394_eSATAII I/O Plus: 1 eSATAII port, 1 x IEEE 1394 port, 4 ready-to-use USB ports