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Introducing the Motherboard
This motherboard supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 133/
100/66/33 Mb/s.
• One PCI Express x16 slot for Graphics Interface
• Two PCI Express x1 slots
• One 32-bit PCI v2.3 compliant slot
• One IDE connector supporting up to two IDE devices
• One floppy disk drive interface
• Six 7-pin SATA connectors
Expansion Options
Integrated I/O
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port
• One VGA port
• One optional DVI port
• Six USB ports
• One LAN port
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6/8-ch (optional) line-out
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
Onboard LAN (Optional)
The onboard LAN provides either of the following features:
• Compliant with 1000Base-T IEEE 802.3ab, 100Base-TX IEEE 802.3u
• Supports half/full duplex operation
• IEEE 802.3 compliant RGMII/MII
• 10/100 full/half duplex operation
• Supports RMII mode, MII, and 7-wire SNI (Serial Network Interface)
• IEEE 802.3/802.3u compliant
Audio (Optional)
The onboard Audio provides either of the following features:
• 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec
• DACs Support 96K/48K/44.1KHz DAC sample rate
• Power support: Digital:3.3V; Analog:5.0V
• WOW
TM
and Tru Surround
TM
from SRS
• Provides single ended CD input with DRM solutions and legacy
OS issues
• 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec
• SPDIF In/Out supports 96K/48K/44.1KHz plus SPDIF OUT sup-
ports 88.2 KHz
• Power support: Digital:3.3V; Analog:5.0V
• MAxx Player TM from Waves
• Provides single ended CD input with DRM solutions and legacy
OS issues