Parallel IDE: One ATA-133 port controlled by JMicron JMB363 chip.
Serial IDE: Six SATA-300 ports controlled by the south bridge chip (ICH9R), supporting RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 plus two eSATA-300 ports controlled by JMicron JMB363 chip.
USB: 12 USB 2.0 ports (six soldered on the motherboard and six available thru I/O brackets).
Firewire (IEEE 1394a): Two ports controlled by Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A chip, one soldered on the motherboard and another available thru an I/O bracket.
On-board audio: Coaxial and optical SPDIF outputs controlled by the south bridge chip. This motherboard comes with a riser card based on Realtek ALC885 codec (eight channels, 24-bit resolution, up to 192 KHz sampling rate for both the inputs and outputs, 101 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the inputs and 106 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the outputs).
On-board video: No.
On-board LAN: Two Gigabit Ethernet ports, one controlled by the chipset together with a Broadcom chip to make the physical layer interface and the other controlled by a Broadcom BCM5788 controller (connected to the PCI bus).
Buzzer: No.
Power supply: EPS12V.
Slots: Three PCI Express x16 slots supporting CrossFire (two of them working at x16 and one – white slot – working at x4) and three standard PCI slots.
Memory: Four DDR-DIMM sockets up to DDR3-1600/PC3-12800.
Extra features: Cooling solution that can be configured as passive, water cooling or dry ice/liquid nitrogen, aluminum solid capacitors, POST diagnostics display and power, reset and clear CMOS switches.
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