Ultra 440BX ATX Mainboard
INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTION
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OVERVIEW
This Mainboard is a high performance personal computer mainboard. It is the ATX
form-factor mainboard with both Slot 1 and Socket 370 on the board for various
purposes. The Intel® 82440BX AGPset™ and Winbond® I/O chipset are chosen
as the core logic of the mainboard to give the most outstanding performance and
reliability. It is designed for 233, 266, 300 , 333, 350, 366, 400, 433, 450, 466,
500, 550MHz and higher speed Pentium™ II , Pentium™ III and Celeron™
processors
There are four IDE ports on this mainboard and it allows you to connect maximum
eight IDE devices. (There are only two IDE ports on the DIBX2+ mainboard)
Each IDE interface supports the master/slave connection mode and they support
the IDE, EIDE and Ultra DMA (Ultra-ATA) standards. Two of the IDE ports
support the ATA/66 protocol and it makes the data transfer rate of the connected
IDE device amazingly fast.
In order to support the popular devices which will be installed in the PC system,
there are one Floppy Disk control port, two high speed Serial ports (UARTs), one
multi-mode Parallel port, one PS/2™ mouse port, one IR port and two USB ports
designed on the mainboard. When you are connecting the devices like PS/2 mouse,
external modem, printer, floppy disk drive, USB devices .. etc. You don't have to
purchase another interface card. Simply have the related devices connected to the
appropriate interface.
Pentium™ II, Pentium™ III and Celeron™ are the 64-bit processors with RISC
technology, which offers several key features such as built-in 512K/256/128K L2
cache, 12-stage super-pipeline architecture, out of order execution … etc. In order
to optimize of its capabilities and performances, the 32-bit Operating System (such
as Windows® NT and OS/2™) and 32-bit applications are recommended.
