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Overview
Overview
Chapter 1
The new 1stMainboard
®
AN19E/AN19C
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is an 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 200/266/333 MHz. The board
provides users with an ATA133 data transaction for hard drives and has 3
PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 DDR333 DIMMs for up to 3 GB.
The optional serial ATA feature replaces the standard parallel ATA physical
storage interface and allows future enhancements to the computing platform.
It completely software compatible with parallel ATA, requiring no mofication
to your operating system.The board is equipped with 2 dual channeled en-
hanced PCI bus master IDE connectors, plus two optional IDE RAID ATA133
connectors for supporting more efficient data backup.
The board is based around the high performance VIA KT400
Ô
as North Bridge
and the VIA VT8235
Ô
as South Bridge. Its AGP 8X functions supported AGP
3.0 interface and the most robust 3D games with software environments. The
AGP slot allows 1.5 volt AGP card only and Maximum AGP interface bandwith
2.1 GB/s.