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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard has a
Socket-478
to support
Intel Pentium 4
processors
with
Hyper-Threading Technology
and Front-Side Bus (FSB) speeds up to
800 MHz(only by overclocking)
/ 533 MHz. Hyper-Threading Technology,
designed to take advantage of the multitasking features in Windows XP, gives
you the power to do more things at once.
This motherboard integrates the
SiS661GX
Northbridge and
SiS964L
Southbridge
that supports the built-in
USB 2.0
providing higher bandwidth,
implementing
Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0
and is
compliant with
UHCI 1.1
and
EHCI 0.95
. It supports two DIMM sockets for
DDR400
/333/266 up to 2 GB system memory,
AC’ 97 Audio Codec
and
Ultra
DMA
133
/100/66
function. It has one
8X AGP
, one
CNR
and two 32-bit
PCI
slots. There is a full set of I/O ports including two PS/2 ports for mouse and
keyboard, one serial port, one parallel port, one LAN port(optional), one
VGA
port, three audio jacks for Line-in, Line-out and Microphone, and four back-
panel USB2.0 ports. In addition, onboard USB headers USB2/USB3 provide
extra ports by connecting the Extended USB Module to the motherboard.
It is a
Micro
ATX
motherboard and has power connectors for an ATX power
supply.
Key Features
The key features of this motherboard include:
Socket-478 Processor
•
Supports
Intel Pentium 4 Series
processors
•
Supports up to
800 MHz(only by overclocking) /
533
MHz Front-Side
Bus
Hyper-Threading
technology enables the operating system into thinking it’s
hooked up to two processors, allowing two threads to be run in parallel, both
on separate ‘logical’ processors within the same physical processor.
Users please note that this motherboard supports FSB 533 MHz only; FSB
800 MHz can be achieved by overclocking but it may be unstable!
Chipset
There are
SiS661GX Northbridge
and
SiS964L
in the chipsets in accordance
with an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and perfor-
mance.
•
High Performance Host Interface: Supports Intel Pentium 4 processor
family with FSB 533MHz