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ASRock 775Dual-VSTA Motherboard Review

Manufacturer: ASRock
Product: ASRock 775Dual-VSTA
Date: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Brian Wallace -
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Layout

The ASRock has a pretty good layout considering what kind of things it can do.

BIOS

Here you can see the board being prepped for a test fit of a Thermaltake Big Typhoon heatsink. There is plenty of room around the socket to fit larger coolers like the Big Typhoon with no problem.

BIOS

In this photo the brown slot is the AGP 8x slot, the purple being PCI-E. There are 4 PCI slots which gives you plenty of space to add in a couple of TV Tuners and a discreet sound card if you like. Personally I feel the Realtek 888 7.1 HD Audio on this board is excellent. The only downside to the sound is no optical or coax out which I'm sure was done to keep down costs. Note that the floppy connector is below the last PCI slot. If you require a floppy this is poor location, but there is very little practical use for floppies these days.

BIOS

Finally here is a shot of the memory slots. The blue slots are DDRI which means that the yellow slots are for DDRII.

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Review Index
Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - 775Dual-VSTA
Page 3 - BIOS Options
Page 4 - Layout
Page 5 - Test Systems
Page 6 - Sisoft; Sandra 2007
Page 7 - SuperPi 1.5
Page 8 - WinRAR
Page 9 - Cinebench
Page 10 - 3DMark06
Page 11 - Quake 4
Page 12 - X³ Reunion
Page 13 - F.E.A.R.
Page 14 - Overclocking & Conclusion