Chapter 1
Introduction
This mainboard has a
Socket-478
processor socket for
Intel
Pentium 4
processors with front-side bus (FSB) speeds up to
533 MHz
.
This mainboard integrates the
SiS650GX
Northbridge along with
SiS962L
Southbridge chipsets that supports built-in
AC97 Codec
,
2
DDR
modules up to 2GB system memory, and provides
Ultra
DMA
33/
66/100/133
function. These chipsets’ function is detailed
as the Chipset description in next section. This mainboard
integrates a
256-bit 3D/2D Graphics Engine
, Video Accelerator
and Advanced Hardware Acceleration
MPEGI/MPEGII Video
Decoder
for the Intel Pentium 4 series based PC systems. It has the
external AGP slot with
AGP 4X 266MHz
capability, one
CNR
(Communications and Networking Riser) slot, and built-in
10BaseT/100BaseTX Network Interface
(optional). In addition,
there is a full set of
I/O Ports
including PS/2 keyboard and mouse
ports, one serial port, one VGA port, one parallel port, and
maximum six USB2.0 ports – four back-panel ports and onboard
USB header JUSB1 providing two extra ports by connecting the
Extended USB Module to the mainboard.
This mainboard is
Micro ATX size
and has power connectors for
an
ATX
power supply and measures 244 x 190mm.
