NF500 754
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
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OTHERBOARD
F
EATURES
A. Hardware
CPU
Supports Socket 754.
Supports AMD Athlon 64 and Sempron processors.
Supports Front Side Bus up to
1.6
G HT.
AMD 64 architecture enables simultaneous 32 and 64 bit computing.
Supports HyperTransport Technology and AMD Cool’n’Quiet
Technology.
Chipset
NVIDIA
nForce500:
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Supports NVIDIA Firewall.
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Supports 10 USB 2.0 ports.
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Supports NVIDIA nTune Utility.
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Supports 1 PCI-Express x16 interf ace graphics slot.
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Supports 2 PCI-Express x1 interf ace slots.
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Supports 4 SATA ports, each channel up to 1.5Gb/s.
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Supports NVIDIA RAID f unctions, including RAID 0, RAID 1 and
RAID 0+1.
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Supports 4 IDE disk drives with PIO Mode 5, DMA Mode and Ultra
DMA 33/66/100/133 Bus Master Mode.
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Compliant with AC’97 v ersion2.3 specif ication.
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Complaints with PCI-Express Version 1.a specif ication.
Operating Systems
Supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Note:
Do not support Windows 98SE and Windows ME.
Supports SCO UNIX.
Dimensions
ATX Form Factor: 20.82cm (W) x 29.33cm (L)
On-board IDE
2 on-board connectors support 4 IDE disk drives.
Supports PIO mode 4, DMA Mode and Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 bus
master mode.
