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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Here is a photo shot of the board.
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Specs

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LGA 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
( |! f6 R; X" E7 Z( M# Q  |Compatible with all FSB1333/1066/800/533MHz CPUs
1 x+ y( D7 X/ Y' Z0 DSupports 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
Untied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed PCIE/ PCI Buses
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Supports PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
! `+ Q2 J8 B/ fSupports 2 x IEEE1394 ports (one port on back panel, one header on board)
2 P3 J- ]4 m- J$ Y- U4 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)
HDMI_SPDIF header, providing SPDIF audio output to HDMI VGA card, allows the system to connect HDMI Digital TV/projector/LCD devices.
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Windows® Vista™ Premium 2007 Logo Ready
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