Interesting mATX Crossfire capable board

Zap

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I saw this board for $59.99 at the San Diego Fry's Electronics today. It is a mATX socket LGA775 board using the Intel 945GC chipset and with two physical PCI-E 16x slots, though the secondary slot is electrically 4x. I know some Gigabyte boards have "open ended" 4x slots that can take 16x cards, but this one goes a bit farther in being blatantly for video cards. Too bad though that the two slots are right next to each other. Still, might make for an interesting budget setup.

I wonder if there are even the slightest overclocking settings in BIOS?
 

AmberClad

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I wonder what possessed ECS to make such an unusual board. I usually consider CF-capable boards to be high end. But this thing only has 2 RAM slots. The adjacent PCIe x16 slots kind of had me scratching my head too - why wouldn't they just move the 2nd PCIe one slot over. From reading the comment at the bottom, it sounds like older revisions might not support Core 2?

This part caught my eye though:
Moreover,with enabled onboard VGA and PCI Express add-on card,this board can perform Surround Display which provides a panoramic view,along with an unique real-time experience of surround game display.
Does that mean that this is one of those few IGP boards that let you use the onboard video at the same time as a video card? Or am I misinterpreting?

I downloaded the online manual and quickly flipped through it -- didn't see much related to OCing. All I saw were these options:
Auto Detect CPU Frequency
This item enables or disables the auto detect CPU frequency

DRAM Frequency
This item shows the frequency of the DRAM in your computer
Pretty basic stuff.