Chapter 1
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the motherboard. The motherboard is
designed to fit the advanced AMD processors in the 462-pin
package. Based on the ATX form factor, this motherboard
incorporates one of the following chipset: VIA KT400A
Northbridge and VT8235 Southbridge chipsets. This motherboard
provides the standard 200/266/
333 MHz
front side bus with extra
capability.
The KT400A Northbridge provides superior performance between
the CPU, DRAM, AGP bus, and 8X V-Link bus with pipelined,
burst, and concurrent operation. It supports four banks of DDR
Synchronous DRAMs up to 2 GB and full AGP 3.0 capability bus
utilization including 2x, 4x, and 8x mode transfers, SideBand
Addressing, Flush/Fence commands and pipelined grants.
The VT8235 Southbridge supports standard intelligent peripheral
controllers such as USB v2.0/1.1 and Universal HCI v2.0/1.1
compliant, real time clock with 256 byte extended CMOS,
integrated bus-mastering dual full-duplex direct-sound AC97 link
compatible sound system and full System Management Bus
(SMBus) interface.
Sufficient expansion is provided for with one AGP slot, five 32-bit
PCI slot and an optional CNR slot. It also comes with a built-in
Enhanced PCI Bus Master PCI IDE controller that provides high-
speed connections to full range of IDE devices such as HDD and
CD-ROM. This motherboard is designed in a standard ATX form
factor using a 4-layer printed circuit board and measures 305 mm x
190 mm
.
