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Due to a lack of space on the back panel, Asus moved one connection over to a slot panel.

This SATA slot panel allows you to operate two SATA hard drives without opening the PC case.

The well-known monitoring tool PC Probe for Windows XP is included with every Asus motherboard.

Since the Asus Ai series, the AiBooster tool has been included. AI has to be deactivated in the BIOS though before the required software can be installed.

Only eight of the twelve fixed voltage regulators are cooled by this cooler. It would be quite reasonable to wonder why...

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Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.