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Motherboard User’s Guide
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard has a
Socket-939
supporting the newest and advanced
AMD
Athlon 64/Athlon 64 FX
(K8)
processors.
This motherboard integrates the
VIA K8M800
Northbridge and
VT8237
Southbridge that supports the
Serial ATA
interface for high-performance and
mainstream desktop PCs, and the 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
.
It supports 6-channel
AC’97 Audio Codec
and provides one
IDE Ultra DMA
133
/100/66
channel. It has three 32-bit
PCI
slots, one
8X AGP
slot, one
CNR
(Communications and Networking Riser) slot, and supports the onboard
10BaseT/100BaseTX Network
interface (optional). In addition, this
motherboard has a full set of I/O ports including two PS/2 ports for mouse and
keyboard, one serial port, one parallel port, one VGA port, one LAN port
(optional), four back-panel
USB2.0
ports, and three audio jacks for microphone,
line-in and line-out. Onboard USB header(s) can provide extra ports by
connecting the Extended USB Module to the motherboard.
This motherboard is a
MicroATX size
motherboard and has power connectors
for an ATX power supply.
Key Features
The key features of this motherboard include:
Socket-939 Processor Support
•
Supports AMD
Athlon 64/Athlon 64 FX
(K8)
processors
Chipset
There are
VIA K8M800 Northbridge
and
VT8237 Southbridge
in this chipset
in accordance with an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability
and performance.
•
Defines Highly Integrated Solutions for High-Performance Workstation
& PC Desktop Designs -- High-performance North Bridge with
HyperTransport interface to AMD™ K8 CPU plus AGP 8X external
bus to external Graphics Controller plus high-speed V-Link interface to
South Bridge
•
High Performance HyperTransport CPU Interface -- Processor interface
via HyperTransport interface
•
Full Featured Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Controller
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AGP v3.0 compliant 8X / 4X transfer mode with Fast Write Support
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Pipelined split-transaction long-burst transfers up to 2.1 GB/sec (4
bytes x 533 MHz)
