VIA 82C694 ATX Mainboard
INTRODUCTION
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Accelerated Graphic Port (AGP)
There is the AGP slot built on the board where you can install the AGP VGA
card. Basically, the demand for 3D graphic rendering and the throughput of
screen display is increasing. AGP is such a new interface that will increase
massive bandwidth between VGA card and CPU to increase the display
quality and performance. The AGP slot designed on the mainboard supports
the 4X AGP mode. When you have the 4X AGP display card installed on the
mainboard, it will enhance the system display performance tremendously.
Over Clocking
This mainboard allows you to fine tune the CPU core voltage (Vcore) and
Front Side Bus clock (FSB). When users decide to increase the system
performance by over clocking the CPU, they will have to change the FSB
clock speed and the Vcore to achieve such purpose. This mainboard provides
a flexible selection on FSB clock and Vcore and it allows you to optimize
the system performance and stability when over clocking. (please refer to
Section 4-11 for the settings).
Hardware Monitoring
There is the hardware monitoring designed on the mainboard. You can
always use the hardware monitoring feature to monitor the system healthy
status. Basically, the hardware monitoring feature will monitor the status of
the cooling fan speed, CPU voltage and system temperature etc.
There is also the 3D audio interface designed on the mainboard. When the audio
interface is installed on the mainboard, you need not to invest any on the audio
interface card. Simply have the speaker connected to the audio connector (CN18)
on the mainboard and you will have the 3D sound effect in your PC system.
According to different logic applied on this mainboard, several different model
will be created as shown in the following table: Please refer to the following table
for the difference:
MODEL NAME
IDE Interface
AMR Slot Onboard 3D Audio
694AX
Ultra DMA 33/66
Yes
Yes
694AXL
Ultra DMA 33/66
No
No
694BX
Ultra DMA 33/66/100
Yes
Yes
694BXL
Ultra DMA 33/66/100
No
No
