Taipei, Taiwan. R.O.C.Tuesday, March 27, 2000- The ST6-RAID is ABIT's latest Universal mainboard based on the Intel 815EP chipset, and represents the very top of the line in support for current Intel FC-PGA Socket CPUs as well as adding support for the upcoming FC-PGA2 CPU Line. The ST6-RAID combines appealing 815EP features such as onboard sound, 133MHz FSB and PC133 SDRAM support, and full Communication/Networking Riser capabilities with unique ABIT innovations such as SoftMenu™III, ATA/100, and IDE RAID! With all these features, the ST6-RAID is truly loaded with power.
The 815EP chipset provides the ST6-RAID with all of today's standard top-of-the-line features: 66/100/133MHz FSB support, 2 USB ports, 3 DIMM slots for SDRAM modules, 1 AGP slot (with AGP 4X support and AIMM compatibility), integrated sound, 1 CNR slot, and 6 PCI slots. The "E" in 815EP stands for the South Bridge's ICH2 (I/O Controller Hub 2), which brings with it a few features of its own: ATA/100 on the two native IDE channels, an extra USB channel (for a grand total of up to 4 USB ports), and full support for CNR networking cards.
But Wait, There's More!
ABIT's world-famous SoftMenu™III allows the user to define the correct front side bus speed at anywhere between 50 and 250MHz in increments of one, plus increased CPU core voltage adjustments. The system BIOS features and supports Award Plug and Play BIOS, plus Write-Protect Anti-Virus functionality. ABIT has also added an onboard ATA100/RAID controller, giving you 2 more channels of ATA/100 support which, when added to the 2 native channels, allow you to connect up to 8 IDE devices! This controller also gives you RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 capabilities. RAID 0 divides data across two drives, giving you faster transfer rates, RAID 1 automatically makes a backup copy of your hard drive, and RAID 0+1 gives you the best of both: speed plus safety! In addition to all this power, the ST6-RAID also gives you flexibi |