K8M800-754
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Introduction
Thanks for choosing the K8M800-754 mainboard! It is based on VIA
®
K8M800 Northbridge and
VIA
®
VT8237 Southbridge chipset. It also supports AMD
®
Athlon
TM
64
Processor.
The K8M800-754 mainboard provides 2 sockets using 184-pin DDR SDRAM. You can install
DDR400/ 333/ 266 (PC3200/ 2700/ 2100) SDRAM, and it supports a total capacity of up to 2GB.
The K8M800-754 mainboard provides one 4X/ 8X (AGP2.0/3.0) AGP Slot and three 32-bit PCI
Slots with PCI 2.3 specification.
The K8M800-754 mainboard includes two built-in IDE facilities that support Ultra ATA 33/ 66/ 100/
133. It also includes two built-in Serial ATA facilities that support SATA RAID 0 or 1 and transfer
rate up to 150 MB/sec per channel.
Moreover, the K8M800-754 mainboard has On-board Video Graphic function which is able to
support 3D and video acceleration. With Ultra-AGP II
TM
Technology supported, the video
performing effeciency can achieve up to 2 GB/sec of an AGP VGA card worked.
The K8M800-754 mainboard comes with an AC’97 audio controller which supports high quality 6-
channel audio function (Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effects).
The K8M800-754 mainboard can support maximal eight USB 2.0 ports.
The K8M800-754 mainboard also comes with a LAN Chip (RealTek RT8100C) which supports a
back panel LAN port capable of 10/100 Mbps transfer rate.
All of the information in this manual only for reference. This specification is subject to change
without notice.
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