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Introducing the Motherboard
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Thank you for choosing 741GX-M motherboard. This motherboard is designed
to fit the advanced AMD processors in the 462-pin package. This motherboard
is based on micro-ATX form factor featuring the SiS741GX Northbridge and
SiS964L Southbridge chipsets. It accommodates AMD Athlon XP / Sempron /
Athlon / Duron Processors supporting Front Side Bus (FSB) up to 333 / 266 /
200 MHz. In addition, the motherboard has 2 built-in 184-pin DIMM slots, and
the main memory is expandable to a maximum of 2GB.
The SiS741GX Northbridge chipset features an AGP 8X bridge and a DDR-
333 Memory controller, supporting AMD Athlon XP / Sempron / Athlon / Duron
processors with FSB up to 333MHz. While the SiS964L Southbridge chipset
provides eight USB 2.0 ports, 6-channels audio speaker compliant with AC’ 97
v2.3 specification, IDE channels PIO mode 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and Ultra DMA
133/100/66/33.
This high performance motherboard is intended to give customers a high qual-
ity, multimedia solution and state-of-the-art technology. It provides a complete
set of I/O ports, such as dual channel IDE interfaces, a floppy controller, a
serial port, a VGA port, an EPP/ECP capable bi-directional parallel port con-
nector, four USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectors, LAN port, a PS/2
keyboard and mouse connector, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in, line-
out. One AGP slot (support 1.5V AGP interface only), three PCI local bus slots
and one CNR (Communication and Networking Riser) slot providing expand-
ability for add-on peripheral cards.
