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Introducing the Motherboard
This motherboard supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 133/
100/66/33 MB/s.
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One PCI Express x16 for Graphics Interface
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One PCI Express x1 slots
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Three 32-bit PCI v2.3 compliant slots
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One IDE connector supporting up to two IDE devices
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One floppy disk drive interface
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Four 7-pin SATA connectors
Expansion Options
Integrated I/O
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Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
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One serial port
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One ESATA port (optional)
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Four USB ports
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One LAN port (optional)
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Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6/8-channel (optional) line-out
BIOS Firmware
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Power management
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Wake-up alarms
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CPU parameters
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CPU and memory timing
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice.
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
The motherboard uses Award BIOS that enables users to configure many system
features including the following:
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different processor clock
speeds.
Onboard LAN (Optional)
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Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Controller for PCI Express
TM
Applications
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Integrated 10/100/1000 transceiver
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Wake-on-LAN and remote wake-up support
The onboard LAN provides the following features:
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