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The M004 Motherboard 1-1
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The M004 Motherboard
This chapter is organized into the following sections:
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Features
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Specifications
Features
M004 is a highly integrated IBM PC/AT compatible system board
designed to meet the industry’s most demanding desktop applications.
This motherboard is based on the Intel 82440BX AGPset chipset
which supports Pentium® II processors with processor speeds of up to
500 MHz with MMX technology. It has four 168-pin Dual Inline
Memory Module (DIMM) sockets supporting up to 1024 MB of
SDRAM.
M004 also comes with an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) slot, a
high-performance hardware interface for graphics-intensive
applications, such as 3D applications. The AGP slot is independent of
the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus and is designed to
be used exclusively with graphic display devices. The M004 supports
3.3 V AGP devices with data transfer rates up to 133 MHz, and it
allows a data throughput rate of 500 MB/sec.
M004 is built with four PCI bus slots, thus providing a high bandwidth
data path for intensive data movement functions. In addition, M004
has three ISA slots.
The Intel’s 82440BX AGPset chipset provides an integrated Bus
Mastering IDE controller with two high-performance IDE interfaces.
You can connect up to four IDE devices to the controller and achieve
data transfer rates of up to 33 MB/sec.