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Overview
Overview
Chapter 1
The new 1stMainboard
®
AM37
is an Micro ATX sized motherboard sup-
porting the latest generation of AMD
®
processors at industry leading speeds.
By utilizing DDR ( Double Data Rate ) transfer rate the 100/133 MHz system
bus effectively reaches Front Side Bus speeds of 200/266 MHz. The board
provides users with an ATA133 data transaction for hard drives and allows up
to 2 GB memory totally by 2 DDR266/200 SDRAM sockets.
The AM37 is based around the high performance KM266
core chip with VIA
VT8235
as a South Bridge. The video functions supported by KM266 pro-
vides you with a photo-realistic 3D experience suitable for the most robust 3D
games and software environments. AC97 Codec that embedded in VT8235,
ensures high quality video and audio effect. The mainboard features onboard
audio with either 2-channel or 5.1-channel.
The mainboard also comes equipped with the new NOVUS
®
range of innova-
tive features that assist in the installation and maintenance. The features in-
clude Easy Key, which provides instant keyboard access to the BIOS for
adjustments to Clock and Default settings and the BIOS Guardian is an Anti
Virus utility that prevents viruses from damaging your system BIOS and ren-
dering your system inoperative.
Expansion is provided by 1 AGP 4X and 3 PCI slots. In addition, the
1stMainboard is equipped standard I/O connections include 2 serial ports (1
by pinheader), 1 parallel port, 1 VGA port, 1 PS/2 mouse and keyboard connec-
tor, 6 USB 2.0 ports (2 ports by one pinheader), 1 IR port by pinheader, and 1
media connector (Line-In, Line-Out, Mic-In, 1 front audio).
