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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard has a
LGA775
socket
for latest
Intel
Pentium 4/Celeron
processors with
Hyper-Threading Tech-
nology
and Front-Side Bus (FSB) speeds up to
800
MHz. Hyper-
Threading Technology, edsigned to take advantage of the
multitasking features in Windows XP, gives you the power to do
more things at once.
This motherboard integrates the
VIA PM800
Northbridge along
with
VT8237
Southbridge that supports the
Serial ATA
interface
for high-performance and mainstream desktop PCs; the built-in
USB 2.0
providing higher bandwidth, implementing
Universal
Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0
and is compliant with
UHCI 1.1
and
EHCI 1.0
.
It supports 6-channel
AC’97 Audio Codec
and provides one
IDE Ultra DMA
133
/100/66
channel. It has one
8x AGP
, one
CNR
(Communications and Networking Riser), and three 32-bit
PCI
slots. There is a full set of I/O ports including two PS/2 ports
for mouse and keyboard, one VGA port, one serial port, one
parallel port, one LAN port (optional), three audio jacks for
micropone, line-in and line-out, four back-panel USB 2.0 ports
and onboard USB headers USB2/USB3 providing four extra ports
by connecting the extended USB module to the motherboard.
It is a
Micro ATX
motherboard and has power connectors for an
ATX power supply.
