Specification
It's fairly obvious what the unit's main specification is, but I'll outline it here for completeness.| IWill ZMAXdp | |
| CPU Support | All AMD Socket 940 processors, 2 sockets. Opteron 2xx CPUs needed for dual-CPU operation |
| Northbridge | NVIDIA nForce3 250 |
| Memory Support | 2 slots, DDR400, 2GB max, dual-channel, registered |
| AGP | 8X |
| PEG16X | None |
| Southbridge | N/A |
| Audio | Realtek ALC655 CODEC from nForce3 250 feed |
| Audio Connectivity | 6 port backplane speaker |
| PCI | 1 x 32-bit 33MHz PCI 2.1 slot |
| PCI Express | None |
| IDE | 2 ATA133 compliant ports from nForce3 250 |
| IDE RAID | Both ports, RAID0, RAID1, RAID0+1 |
| SATA | 2 ports from nForce3 250 |
| SATA RAID | Both ports, RAID0, RAID1, RAID0+1 |
| Networking | Marvell Alaska ® 88E1111 (Single-Port) Transceiver, 10/100/1000Mbit. InProcomm IPN2120 802.11b Wi-Fi wireless Ethernet networking |
| USB | nForce3 250, 4 x backplane USB2.0, 4 x front panel I/O USB2.0 |
| FireWire | FireWire400, 1 x front panel port, from Texas Instruments TSB43AB22PDT PHY |
| Other I/O | PS/2, 1 x Serial |
| Possible Storage | 1 optical and 3 HDD, or 1 optical, 2 HDD and a floppy drive |
I can only see users asking why there's no digital audio input or output. The ALC655 supports S/PDIF input and output, but IWill don't provide the hardware necessary to use the functionality. Otherwise it's pretty feature packed, not least in the support for two Opteron processors.
You get built in, upgradeable WiFi, 5.1 surround sound, RAID on all disk ports, PCI and AGP slots, support for three hard disks internally, all eight USB2.0 ports, an external SATA port and powered FireWire400. What more do you want?
IWill are cagey about future revisions of the ZMAXdp in terms of features, so I can't speculate either way, but the current revision certainly presses the vast majority of a geek's, power user's and workstation user's happy buttons, wouldn't you say?