ASUS Striker II NSE (NVIDIA nForce 790i SLI)
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ASUS Striker II NSE supports 8 SerialATA-II links. Six of them are supported by the south bridge nForce 570i MCP, with two more - by the additional controller JMB363. The SATA connectors of the south bridge are painted blue and orientated in parallel to the board's plane.
As regards the SATA connectors of the additional controller, they are brought over to the board's rear panel. The controller itself is positioned near the panel:
In the end, as many as 10 hard disks can be plugged in to ASUS Striker II NSE: eight disks over the SerialATA II, with 2 more via the ParallelATA.
Then, on the board there are two Gigabit LAN controllers 88E1116 made by Marvell:
The board supports ten USB 2.0 ports, six of which are positioned on the rear panel, with 4 more plugged in via plates (the board comes bundled with a bracket for two ports). Besides, the board offers support for the Firewire bus. For that, there is an additional VT6308P controller made by VIA. Therefore, the board offers support for two IEEE1394 ports: one on the rear panel, with the other one connected with a plate (available in the package bundle).
The last thing to dwell on is the integrated High Definition Audio. The ADI 1988B chip is used as the codec which supports output for 8 channels.
Recall that the audio subsystem is on a separate board.
The board's rear panel looks like this:
You can notice see a complete lack of LPT and COM ports. We note a connector to plug in a LCD Poster, optical and coaxial SP-DIF outputs, a Firewire port, two SerialATA ports, as well as buttons to clear the CMOS settings.
Traditionally, a jumpers layout diagram:
The diagnostic LCD Poster screen allows keeping track of all the stages of system start-up, which allows localizing a fault whenever a trouble comes up. Engineers at ASUS have implemented an additional feature that prevents the LCD screen from running idle upon successful start-up: the screen displays a custom line or the current time. Both can be selected from the BIOS:
Unfortunately, you can't enter a long line (although it can't be simpler to implement scrolling), and in the line itself you can't input many characters (e.g., "-" or a "space").
Now on to the BIOS settings.
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