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Introduction
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2 Hardware Monitoring
Hardware monitoring enables you to monitor various aspects of the system
operation and status. The features include CPU temperature, voltage and fan
speed in RPMs.
2
10/100 LAN (Optional)
This mainboard is mounted with a ethernet LAN PHY. It allows the mainboard to
connect to a local area network by means of a network hub.
2
GbE LAN (Optional)
This mainboard is optionally mounted with a Gigabit ethernet LAN chipset. The
new Gigabit Ethernet LAN allows data transmission at 1,000 megabits per second
(Mbps), which runs 10 times faster than conventional 10/100BASE-T Ethernet
LANs.
2 Serial ATA
Support Serial ATA, an evolutionary replacement for Parallel ATA IDE storage
interface. Increases the peak data transfer speed up to 150MB/sec and allows
future enhancements to the computing platform.
2 More S-ATA (Optional)
Extra Silicon Image SiI3114 S-ATA controller onboard for 4 additional S-ATA
ports with 150MB/sec supporting RAID 0, 1 , 10, 5.
2 USB2.0
A popular USB standard for plugging in peripherals with up to 480Mbps transfer
speed while maintaining backward compatibility with older USB1.1 device.
2 Audio
Delivers multi-channel audio to bring you the latest in audio realism from DVD
movies and games. Perfect for your home theatre system.