IWILL P55XPLUS, Manual

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CHAPTER 1
Overview
Thank you for purchasing this P55XPlus Ultra DMA33 Motherboard . This operation
manual will guide you to proper configuration and installation. It has an overview of the
engineering design and features of this board. Also, this manual provides useful
information for your later upgrading or any changes to the configuration. Please keep
this for your future reference.
1.1 Features
This P55XPlus Ultra DMA 33 motherboard is your best choice for optimizing media
rich performance desktop on the socket 7 processor with the new MMX technology. It
incorportes with Ali Aladdin 4+ PCIset with I/O subsystem that supports for processors
up to 300 MHz with one single jumper to set the speed frequency and 512Kbyte for
second Level Cache onboard that is well prepared to run heavy application.
To run faster bus speed is a great plus in this P55XPlus motherboard. It not only can run
the 66MHz bus that Intel claims on all her highest system bus but also built in 75MHz
and 83MHz bus speed as an option for users to take advantage of.
In order to support all the legacy ISA devices well available today, there are 5 ISA slots
for great expansion ability. A optional tag ram can be added to support memory
cacheable size up to 512MB.
The concurrent PCI (PCI 2.1) reduces CPU latencies for smoother video and more realistic
audio, and Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology makes Plug and Play peripheral
connections a reality.
Besides, run with faster system memory is another feature on this Pentium EIDE
Motherboard to outperform the whole system performance. It equips 4 of the 72 pin
SIMMs that support both fast page and EDO DRAM also with two of the 168 pin
DIMM memory sockets that support the new 5V, unbuffered Synchonous DRAM.
The onboard two IDE channels support UltraDMA/33 that enhances the data transfer rate
to 33 Mbytes, which is new technology and is compatible with the existing ATA-2 IDE
specification.