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Freeway Design FWD-CUPA Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Sunday, September 16, 2001
External Boards
CardBus and Sound Boards
If you view the photos of this board from Freeway's website you will notice a box with some extra connectors
on it. This is the multi-media bay that comes with bare-bones systems. Since I was only sent the motherboard for review
I got the media cards but no bay to put them in. I do believe the bays can be purchased separately though I am not certain.
Personally I am ok with this since I have plans to build a completely acrylic case for this board and plan to mount these cards in plain view.
In effect building my own media bay.
The first card has support for a single PC Card, one IEEE 1394 and two USB. The other card provides
additional digital audio support. S/PDIF inputs and outputs, Headphone and microphone jacks and optical inputs and outputs.
I have included a picture of the ATX connectors on the back of this motherboard. For the most part everything fits into the standard back plate except for the audio. Freeway provided 4 plugs instead of the standard 3, this gives us our 5.1 channel sound.
I have included a picture of the ATX connectors on the back of this motherboard. For the most part everything fits into the standard back plate except for the audio. Freeway provided 4 plugs instead of the standard 3, this gives us our 5.1 channel sound.
