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Motherboard User’s Guide
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard has a Socket-AM2 supporting the newest and advanced AMD
Sempron/Athlon 64/Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon 64 FX with HyperTransport
Technology processors and Front-Side Bus (FSB) speeds up to1000 MHz.
It integrates the SiS761GX Northbridge and SiS965L Southbridge
that supports
the built-in USB 2.0 providing higher bandwidth, implementing Universal Serial
Bus Specification Revision 2.0
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It supports AC’ 97 Audio Codec and provides
Ultra DMA 133/100/66
function. It has one PCI Express x16, one PCI Express
x1, one CNR and two 32-bit PCI
slots. There is a full set of I/O ports including
two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard, one serial port, one parallel port, one
LAN port(optional), one VGA port, three audio jacks for Line-in, Line-out and
Microphone, four back-panel USB2.0 ports and onboard USB headers providing
extra ports by connecting the Extended USB Module to the motherboard.
This motherboard is a Micro ATX size motherboard and has power connectors
for an ATX power supply.
Key Features
The key features of this motherboard include:
Socket-AM2 Processor Support
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Supports AMD Sempron/Athlon 64/Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon 64
FX processors
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Supports Front-Side Bus 1000 MHz
Note: HyperTransport Technology
is a point-to-point link between two
devices, it enables integrated circuits to exchange information at much
higher speeds than currently available interconnect technologies.
Chipset
There are SiS761GX Northbridge and SiS965L
Southbridge in this chipset in
accordance with an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability
and performance.
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High Performance Host Interface:
-Supports AMD Athlon 64, Athlon 64
FX, Sempron CPUs
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HyperTransport compliant bus driver with auto compensation
capability
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Integrated Host-to-PCI Express Bridge:
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4 GB/s bandwidth for each direction
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Compliant with PCI Express SPEC 1.0a
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High Performance & High Quality 3D Graphics Accelerator:
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Built-in 32-bit floating point format VLIM triangle setup engine
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Built-in 2 pixel rendering pipelines and 4 texture units
