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HARDWARE CONFIGURATION
The Pentium® motherboard is based on the VIA® VPX Chipset. The chipset is a highly
integrated solution for a cost-effective and compact motherboard. Features on-board
include super-I/O, PCI bus master IDE, PCI Ver 2.1 compliance, and support of Pentium
CPUs running at 75, 90, 100, 120, 133, 150, 166, 180, 200 and 233MHz, Cyrix 6x86/
6x86L/6x86MX CPUs, AMD K5/K6 processors. DIMM and SIMM sockets are provided
onboard, allowing flexible installation of main memory. The onboard pipelined burst cache
further boosts the system performance.
Key Features
Processor
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ZIF Socket 7.
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Full support for the Intel® Pentium processors with MMX technology processors
using socket 7.
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Supports 50MHz, 55MHz, 60MHz, 66MHz and 75MHz bus speed including all
Pentium® processors operating from 75MHz to 233MHz.
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Supports Cyrix 6x86/6x86L/6x86MX
processors.
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Supports AMD K5/K6 processors.
Cache
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Direct-mapped, write-back external cache.
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Supports 256KB or 512KB or 1024KB synchronous pipelined burst cache.
System Memory
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8MB to 256MB
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Two 72-pin SIMM Sockets and two 168-pin DIMM sockets.
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Supports 5V Fast Page Mode (FPM) and Extended Data Output (EDO) DRAM on
SIMM sockets.
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Supports 5V Fast Page Mode (FPM), Extended Data Output (EDO) and Burst
Extended Data Output (BEDO) DRAM on DIMM sockets.
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Supports 3.3V Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), Extended Data Output (EDO) or
Burst Extended Data Output (BEDO) DRAM on DIMM sockets.
Memory Organization
Two 72-pin SIMM Sockets
• Supports Fast Page Mode (FPM) and Extended Data Out (EDO) at 60 and
70ns speeds.
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Supports Symmetrical and Asymmetrical DRAM addressing.
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Memory size from 4MB up to 128MB.
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Supports single-density SIMMs of 512KB, 1MB, 2MB 4MB and 8MB depth
(x32 orx36).
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Supports double-density SIMMs of 1MB, 2MB, 4MB 8MB and 16MB depth
(x32 or 36).
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Supports banks of different DRAM types and depth.
Hardware Setup
