Quality is the first priority when AOpen designs its products. In spite of the selection of good quality components, there are many researches have been done of how to use them with right circuit at right position. AOpen is always trying to provide value added innovations on the standard motherboard. ??AX5TC motherboard features: High Efficient Synchronous Switching Power Regulator; Hardware Monitoring (CPU Thermal); Over Current Protection Circuit; Thermal Protection Circuit; Suspend to Hard Drive; Optimized SDRAM Performance; Support USB Hot Plug Function; Resettable Fuse Providing Short Circuit Protection for Keyboard and USB Device; Selectable Precision CPU Voltage Regulator; PCI SoundBlaster Link.