Introduction
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S/PDIF is a standard audio file transfer format that trans-
fers digital audio signals to a device without having to be
converted first to an analog format. This prevents the
quality of the audio signal from degrading whenever it is
converted to analog. S/PDIF is usually found on digital audio equip-
ment such as a DAT machine or audio processing device. The S/
PDIF connector on the system board sends surround sound and 3D
audio signal outputs to amplifiers and speakers and to digital re-
cording devices like CD recorders.
Serial ATA is a storage interface that is compli-
ant with SATA 1.0 specification. nForce
TM
410
MCP (Media and Communications Processor) supports Serial ATA
speed of up to 3Gb/s. Serial ATA improves hard drive performance
faster than the standard parallel ATA whose data transfer rate is
100MB/s.
nForce
TM
410 MCP allows configuring RAID on the Serial
ATA drives. It supports RAID 0 and RAID 1.
The onboard Realtek RTL8201CL LAN Phy supports up
to 100Mbps.
The system board is equipped with an IrDA connector
for wireless connectivity between your computer and
peripheral devices. The IRDA (Infrared Data Association) specification
supports data transfers of 115K baud at a distance of 1 meter.
IrDA