Insane Hardware brengt ons de info over 2 nieuwe Asus plankjes, de CUSL2 en de A7V. De CUSL krijgt de i815 chipset aan boord en is geschikt voor FC-PGA processors. Een zeer leuke feature van dit model is dat dat de CPU automagisch zal worden vertraagd als hij te warm wordt. Een leuk ingebouwde valnet voor de beginnende (of slechte ) overclocker. Verder biedt hij PC133 en ATA/100 support:
One VERY COOL (pardon the pun) thing that you will notice with the CUSL2 board is that it allows the CPU to decrease speed on the fly when it over heats!!! The mobo actually detects the temperature on the internal temp diode in the processor and decreases the the core frequency if the processor temperature goes over a certain level. Thats right - overclockers are in heaven with this one! Its a kind of "SpeedStep" technology but it makes sure you don't cook that new CPU. Who is cheering for Asus now? Damn straight, this board will rock. It also offers Dual Channel ATA100 on the new i815 "Solano" chipset from Intel. Another sweet aspect to this one is that it offers PC133 support. A new addition is the two new CNR slots which allow communication device connectivity. Its a kind of new AMR. AGP plays a big role on this board with an AGP Pro slot offering an extra boost of power for cards built on the technology. And finally the board has 3 Thermal Sensors. I think we will see this play a big role this year as people want to monitor more than CPU and board temp. Look out for this hopefully in the next quarter or in Q4.[break]De A7V van Asus is bedoeld voor de AMD Duron en Thunderbird Socket A processors en krijgt de KZ133 chipset van VIA mee. Daarnaast is hier ook ATA/100 ondersteuning aanwezig:[/break]
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Beide plankjes zullen dus geen ISA sloten hebben, daar wordt nu dan echt afsheid van genomen... Meer info bij Insane Hardware.