Technical Information 1-3
SYSTEM BOARD
Key features of the system board include the following:
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Intel Pentium 75- or 100-MHz Pentium processor, depending on system
configuration
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16-KB internal dual write-back cache integrated on the processor
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system Setup program built into the BIOS
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flash ROM for fast economical BIOS upgrades
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integrated input/output (I/O) controller with keyboard, diskette drive, and hard
disk drive controllers. Supports two serial ports and a parallel port.
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PCI local bus for fast data transfer
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support for Intel OverDrive™ processors
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8-MB EDO RAM (16 MB in multimedia and multimedia/network
configurations, 1.2 GB hard disk configurations)
ships with 32-bit, non-parity, 60-ns single-inline memory modules (SIMMs)
RAM expandable up to 128 MB
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integrated graphics
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) graphical user interface (GUI)
accelerator and motion video playback controller using SiS 6205
Graphics and Video Accelerator
standard 1-MB (two 256K x 16) video DRAM, expandable to 2 MB
standard 1-MB video DRAM supports resolutions of 640 x 480 with up to
16.8 million colors, 800 x 600 with up to 64K colors, 1024 x 768 with up to
256 K colors, and 1280 x 1024 with up to 16 colors
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integrated sound (multimedia configurations only)
ESS ES1788 Sound Blaster compatible chip on system board
Yamaha OPL3 FM synthesis chip on system board
built-in 16-bit stereo and FM synthesis
Wavetable sound upgradeable
3D sound effects