MVP3 ATX
SYSTEM BOARD
INTRODUCTION
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1.
INTRODUCTION
1.1
SYSTEM OVERVIEW
This mainboard is an ATX form-factor PCI Local Bus Pentium
TM
system board with the
updated AGP interface designed onboard. The most updated VIA MVP3 chipset for
100MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) is choosen for this mainboard and it gives the most
outstanding performance for different applications.
This mainboard is designed for the high performance Pentium
TM
or other equivalent
processors for high-end application and it is a true GREEN-PC computer system. The
FSB (Front Side Bus) clock speed can be adjusted to 100MHz when we are installing
the 100MHz FSB processor.
This system board supports the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Local Bus
standard (PCI Specification Rev. 2.1 compliant). It not only breaks through the I/O
bottlenecks of the traditional ISA mainboard, but also provides the ultra high
performance for networking and multi-user environments.
The mainboard has built-in two channels PIO and Bus Master Enhanced PCI IDE port,
one Floppy Disk control port, two high speed Serial ports (UARTs), one multi-mode
Parallel port, one PS/2 keyboard port, one PS/2 mouse port, one IR port, two USB
ports.
The Accelerated Graphic Port (A.G.P.) on the board is designed for the updated AGP
3D video display card. Unlike the traditional PCI-based display cards, AGP technology
provides lightening data throughput to fully facilitate the 3Diminsional and multimedia
graphic display. The data transfer rate on the AGP port can be as fast as 133MHz and it
is much faster than the traditional 33MHz PCI VGA cards.
The AGP is a new video display technology and it requires the device driver or new
operating system to enable the accelerated graphic feature. Windows
®
98 will supports
AGP directly, but Windows® 95 still needs the appropriate device drivers to enable the
AGP feature. Please don’t worry about the device driver, you can always find the
device driver included in the AGP card.
