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Introducing the Mainboard
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This mainboard has a
Socket 423
for the
Intel Pentium 4
type processors supporting front side bus (FSB) speeds up to
400 MHz
.
This mainboard has the
VIA VT8753 (P4X266)
Northbridge
and VT8233 Southbridge chipsets that support
AC’97 audio
codec
, and provide
Ultra DMA
33/66/
100
function. This
mainboard has four 32-bit PCI slots, one 4
xAGP
slot, one
CNR
(Communications and Networking Riser) slot, and an
onboard
10BaseT/100BaseTX Network
interface (optional).
In addition, this mainboard has a full set of I/O ports including
two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard, two serial ports, one
parallel port, one MIDI/game port and six USB ports (two
backpanel ports, onboard USB headers providing four extra
ports).
By means of the Extended USB Module connected to the
mainboard, you can make four extra USB ports.
This mainboard is an ATX mainboard that uses a 4-layer
printed circuit board and measures 305 x 244 mm.