Introduction
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1-2 Mainboard Features
Brief Introduction
Athlon
TM
64 Processor
The AMD Athlon
TM
64 processor family is designed to support performance
desktop. It provides a high performance HyperTransport
TM
link to I/O, as well
as a single 64-bit high-performance DDR memory controller.
For more information about all the new features Athlon
TM
64 Processor deliver, check out
the AMD website at http://www.amd.com
Chipset
The board is designed with VIA chipset, K8T890 as North Bridge and VT8237R
as South Bridge, providing a feature rich and scalable platform.
For more information about the new features VIA Chipset, check out the AMD website at
http://www.via.com
PCI-Express (PCI-E)
Next generation peripheral interface to succeed to current PCI bus for the next
decade. With smaller slot size and 250MB/sec(PCI-E*1) or 4GB/sec(PCI-E*16)
maximum transfer, PCI-Express overcomes PCI bus bottleneck.
Hardware Monitoring
Hardware monitoring enables you to monitor various aspects of the system opera-
tion and status. This includes CPU temperature, voltage and fan speed in RPMs.
10/100 LAN
This mainboard is mounted with a ethernet LAN PHY. It allows the mainboard to
connect to a local area network by means of a network hub.
Serial ATA
Support Serial ATA, an evolutionary replacement for Parallel ATA IDE storage
interface. Increases the peak data transfer speed up to 150MB/sec and allows
future enhancements to the computing platform.
S-ATA RAID
RAID function available on chipset S-ATA ports.
