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PREFACE
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HOT-673 is a highly integrated IBM PC/ATX compatible system board designed to
meet the industry's most demanding desktop applications.
Based on the Intel 82443LX AGPset chipset, the Intel Pentium
TM
II processor with
MMX technology featured, and 256KB or 512KB Level 2 high-performance pipelined
burst secondary 168-pin DIMM socket and supports up to 384MB of EDO RAM and
SDRAM.
HOT-673 is equipped with an Accelerated Graphics Port (A.G.P.), a high-performance
interconnect for graphic-intensive application, such as 3D applications. The A.G.P. is
independent of the PCI bus and is designed to exclusively use with graphical-display
devices. The HOT-673 supports 3.3 V A.G.P. devices with data transfer rates up to 133
MHz, allowing data throughput of 500 MB/sec.
The Intel's 82443LX AGPset chipset provides an integrated Bus Mastering IDE control-
ler with two high performance IDE interfaces which allows up to four IDE devices
connection and up to 33 MB/sec of data transfer rates.
The on-board I/O controller provides standard PC I/O functions:
floppy drive interface, two FIFO serial ports, an IrDA device port and a SPP/EPP/ECP
capable parallel port.
HOT-673 is built with two PCI local bus slots providing a high bandwidth data path for
data-movement intensive functions such as graphics, and with two ISA slots.
HOT-673 provides the foundation for cost effective, high performance and highly
expandable platforms, which delivers the latest in the Intel Pentium
TM
II processor and
new advanced chipset technology.
