1
Introduction
9
Expansion Slots
The system board is equipped with 1 universal AGP slot. AGP is an
interface designed to support high performance 3D graphics cards. It
utilizes a dedicated pipeline to access system memory for texturing,
z-buffering and alpha blending. The universal AGP slot supports AGP
2x with up to 533MB/sec. bandwidth and AGP 4x with up to
1066MB/sec. bandwidth for 3D graphics applications. AGP in this
system board will deliver faster and better graphics to your PC.
The system board is also equipped with 5 dedicated PCI slots and
1 CNR slot. CNR (Communication and Networking Riser) is an
interface that can support multi-channel audio, V.90 analog modem,
phone-line based networking or 10/100 Ethernet based networking
riser board.
Onboard Graphics Features
Graphics memory
- Shares 1MB of the system memory. This is fixed regardless of
the size of the system memory.
- Uses the Dynamic Video Memory Technology (DVMT) tech-
nology. This freely changes in size because graphics memory is
allocated from the system memory according to current
needs.
- Supports 4MB display cache by installing a 4MB GPA (Graph-
ics Performance Accelerator) card into the AGP slot (4MB
GPA - optional).
Graphics controller
- 133MHz super AGP performance when installed with a 4MB
GPA card (optional)
- 3D hyper pipelined architecture
- 2D hardware and motion video acceleration
- 9-bit precision hardware motion compensation assistance for
software MPEG2 decode
- Software DVD at 30fps
2D graphics features
- Resolution: up to 1600x1200 in 8-bit color at 85Hz refresh
- 3 Operand Raster BitBLTs
- 64x64x3 color transparent cursor
3D graphics features
- Flat and Gouraud shading
