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Chapter 1: Product introduction
ATX 12V connector.
This power connector connects the 4-pin 12V
plug from the ATX 12V power supply.
CPU socket.
Socket 462 (Socket A) surface mount, Zero Insertion
Force (ZIF) socket for the AMD Athlon XP/Athlon Processors.
North bridge controller.
The
VIA
®
KT600
supports AGP 8X mode,
400/333/266MHz Front Side Bus, and the latest 400/333/266MHz
64-bit memory bus.
DDR DIMM sockets.
These three 184-pin DIMM sockets support
up to 3GB system memory using unbuffered non-ECC PC2700/
2100 DDR DIMMs.
(
Note: PC3200 maximum to 2 DIMMs support only.
Visit the ASUS website (www.asus.com) for the latest qualified DDR400
module list.
)
IDE connectors.
These dual-channel bus master IDE connectors
support up to four Ultra DMA133/100/66, PIO Modes 3 & 4 IDE
devices. Both the primary (blue) and secondary (black) connectors
are slotted to prevent incorrect insertion of the IDE ribbon cable.
ATX power connector.
This 20-pin connector connects to an ATX
+12V power supply. The power supply must have at least 1A on the
+5V standby lead (+5VSB).
Floppy disk connector.
This connector accommodates the
provided ribbon cable for the floppy disk drive. One side of the
connector is slotted to prevent incorrect insertion of the floppy disk
cable.
AGP slot.
This Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) slot supports 1.5V
AGP8X mode graphics cards for 3D graphical applications.
SATA connectors.
These connectors support Serial ATA HDDs
and allows up to 150MB/s data transfer rate, faster than the
standard Parallel ATA with 133MB/s.
South bridge controller.
The
VIA
®
VT8237
integrated peripheral
controller supports various I/O functions including 2-channel ATA/
133 bus master IDE controller, up to eight USB 2.0 ports, LPC
Super I/O interface, AC’97 interface and PCI 2.2 interface.
Flash ROM.
This 2Mb firmware contains the programmable BIOS
program.
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