Chapter 1
Introduction
This mainboard has a
Socket-370
processor socket for the
Intel
FCPGA Celeron
,
FCPGA Pentium III
or
VIA C3 Samuel2
processor with front-side bus speed up to
133MHz
.
This mainboard integrates the
VIA CLE266 Northbridge
and
8235 Southbridge
chipsets that support
DDR 266MHz
,
Ultra
DMA
33/
66/100/133
function and remarkably high system
performance under all types of system operations
It supports built-in
USB 2.0
providing higher bandwidth. It
implements
Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0
and
is compliant with
UHCI 1.1
and
EHCI 0.95
. The mainboard
supports the built-in
AC97 Codec
, two 32-bit
PCI
slots, one
CNR
(Communications and Networking Riser) slot, and an onboard
10BaseT/100BaseTX Network
interface (optional). This
mainboard integrates a
128-bit 3D/2D graphics engine
and a high-
performance 3D accelerator.
In addition, this mainboard has a full set of I/O ports including two
PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard, one serial port, one VGA port,
one parallel port and maximum six USB2.0 ports– four back-panel
ports and onboard USB connector USB1 providing two extra ports
by connecting the Extended USB Module to the mainboard.
This mainboard has all the features you need to develop a powerful
multimedia workstation. The board is
FLEX ATX
size and has a
power connector for an
ATX
power supply.