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Freeway Design FWD-CUPA Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Sunday, September 16, 2001

Additional Features

The FWD-CUPA is feature packed, There is of course the standard chipset features like AGP 4x, PC100/133 SDRAM, and ATA100. Additionally this chipset provides onboard ProSavage video. The video processor isn't much for high-end gaming but does quite well with 2D image quality and light 3D gaming. To get a little background on the ProSavage video processor it is actually two chips in one, S3 Savage4 (3D) and Savage2000 (2D).

As for other onboard features we have Realtek 10/100 Ethernet. This isn't the most well known network chip on the market, at least here in the states, but it performs very well. If you would like to read more about this chip full specs can be found on their website

Audio is another big feature of this motherboard and Freeway didn't skimp on it either. They added C-media's 6-channel 3D audio processor. This chip provides support for 4.1 and 5.1 speaker configurations, including digital input and output. You can find a complete listing of features for this chip on their website