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Chapter 1
Introduction
Overview
The S2380 Trinity K7 is a quality, high performance motherboard designed for
Slot A AMD Athlon K7 microprocessors. The Trinity K7 utilizes the VIA
VT8371 with Award BIOS. S2380 can support Athlon K7 CPU speeds of 500
MHz through 1 GHz, and host bus speeds of up to 200MHz (FSB running at
100 MHz DDR). The S2380 motherboard, with a built-in 4x AGP slot, provides
high performance capabilities that are ideal for a wide range of demanding
applications such as CAD, CAM, CAE, desktop publishing, 3D animation, 3D
Games and video production.
This system board in an ATX form factor offers far more features and
expandability than Micro ATX models. Some of the features included are Four
USB ports, onboard dual channel PCI PIO, 6 PCI slots,Bus Master IDE and
UltraDMA/66, onboard floppy controller, and onboard high speed I/O.
Flexibility and expandability have been designed into the Trinity K7. With I/O
and drive controller support built onboard, the one AGP slot, plus six PCI slots
gives a total of seven usable slots for numerous add-on expansion cards.
Remember to take a look at TYAN Computers web site located at http://
www.tyan.com. There you can find information on all of TYANs products
along with FAQs, distributors list, and drivers.
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