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ASRock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 Worldwide first Motherboard with Vista Premium logo!

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Windows<sup>®</sup> Vista LogoOnce again, proved to be pioneer in the PC industry, ASRock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 officially passed Windows® Vista™ Premium logo submission, which makes it the first motherboard in the world which passed Windows® Vista™ Premium logo in the PC industry! The research and development ability of ASRock lab once again won recognition worldwide. ASRock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 had officially passed Windows® Vista™ Premium logo on Oct 5th, 2006 owing to efforts from both Microsoft® and ASRock engineers!

Oct. 9th, 2006, Taipei

In the past 8 months, ASRock engineers had been cooperating with Microsoft® Taiwan WHQL lab for all of the DTM (Device Testing Manager) test items, running tests and bug fixing for the qualification. DTM is a very detailed test for Windows® Vista™, which includes as many as 43 strict test items that involve systems, chipsets, software, aging and reliability category. Today, the hard work has a big victory - ConRoeXFire-eSATA2, on Oct 5th, 2006, officially passed Windows® Vista™ Premium logo submission.

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Microsoft® WHQL Weekly News had also announced the great news to all of its subscribers: ASRock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2, worldwide first motherboard, had officially passed Windows® Vista™ Premium system logo at early October. ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 is the recommended reference testing platform for other peripherals manufacturers!

ConRoeXFire-eSATA2, the one and only motherboard which passed Vista™ Premium logo, supports excellent specification as well. They are Intel® Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 / Celeron® D processors, FSB1066/800/533 MHz, dual channel DDRII667 x 4 DIMM slots, PCIExpress x 16 slot, one additional AGI Express slot to adopt 2nd PCI Express x 16 VGA card, and other PCI Express x4, x2, x1 interface cards. As for the support of hard disk type, ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 supports 4 Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, with the adoption of ICH7R, which is exclusively designed, supporting RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel® Matrix Storage), NCQ, AHCI, 2 x eSATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s and 2 IEEE1394 headers. ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 is a 7.1 Channel High definition Audio motherboard, which is one very important criteria to support Windows® Vista™.

Flip 3D ScreenshotWindows® Vista™ Home Premium:

Now it's about time to lay back and enjoy the Vista™ Premium interface! Vista™ Premium is a version that includes many fascinating effects. Of which, Windows® Aero is an environment with an additional level of visual sophistication for Home Premium user experience. Windows® Vista™ Aero provides spectacular visual effects such as glass-like interface elements that you can see through. Windows® Vista™ Premium also includes Live taskbar thumbnails, if you rest the mouse pointer over a taskbar item, it will display a live thumbnail of the window, showing the content of that window. With Windows® Flip 3D, you can use the scroll wheel on your mouse to flip through open windows in a stack, and quickly locate the one you want. Media Center Edition (MCE) is also included in Windows® Vista™ OS.

Not only worldwide 1st motherboard that passed Vista™ Premium logo, ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 is also a product that earned tons of recognitions from websites worldwide:

ASRock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 awarded Product Excellence by OCWorkbench.

ASRock ConroeXFire-eSATA2, Most Value For Money Award! Check this out on Hardwarezone.

ASRock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2, a feature-abundant and cost-effective motherboard, is highly recommended by PCLAB!

ConRoeXFire-eSATA2, a dynamic Core Duo Motherboard, awarded Silver Award from HWM Malaysia.