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American Megatrends, Inc., Olympus III User’s Guide (Series 875)
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Serial ATA (SATA) support
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A faster and relatively new way to connect the hard drive to the rest of the
computer
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Up to now, if you wanted SATA you needed to have a Promise, Highpoint or
Silicon Image SATA controller chip. Intel is the first of the chipset
manufacturers to have a SATA controller built into its South Bridge
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The SATA specification lists the maximum transfer rate as 15 0MB/s, which is
13 percent more bandwidth than a 32-bit/33 MHz PCI bus can provide!
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Intel brings the SATA controller onto the ICH and bypasses the PCI bus. The
SATA controller has a direct link to the Hub Link 2.0 interface in ICH5 and can
offer a full 150 MB/s per channel.
ICH
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The Intel I/O Controller Hub version 5 is the newest controller chip designed to
work with the I875P and I865 chipsets. There are two major features of ICH5
that separate it from its predecessor, ICH4; the first feature is integrated support
for a total of eight USB 2.0 ports.
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ICH5 features two SATA channels (supporting a maximum of two drives) and
two Parallel ATA channels (supporting a maximum of four drives), all of which
may be enabled and used concurrently.
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Intel also gives another reason to say goodbye to third party SATA controllers
with the inclusion of RAID function in the ICH5R version. This allows you to
use RAID 0 or 1 on the Serial ATA drives connected to the ICH5R.
AGP 8X
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High-performance AGP 8X graphics interface for an advanced graphics
experience
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Offers 2.1 GB/s of dedicated bandwidth
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Highest bandwidth graphics interface enables upgradability to the latest graphics
cards.
Integrated hi-speed USB 2.0
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Eight ports offer up to 40x greater bandwidth over USB 1.1 for a variety of
today's demanding high-speed I/O peripherals.
Enhanced AC '97 Audio
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Enhanced AC '97 audio implementation with dual independent DMA audio
engines
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Delivers improved sound quality and new audio usage models and enables a
user to make a PC phone call while playing digital music streams
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Supports Dolby* Digital 5.1 surround sound(1), delivering six channels of
enhanced sound quality.
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