PT-5V3T/5VMT
SYSTEM BOARD
SYSTEM BOARD LAYOUT
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1.
INTRODUCTION
1.1
SYSTEM OVERVIEW
The
PT-5V3T / 5VMT
is a AT form-factor PCI Local Bus Pentium system
mainboard with the updated AGP technology designed onboard.
PT-5V3T /
5VMT
will either uses the VIA VP3 or VIA MVP3 chipset on the board. Different
chipset will give different performance to your PC system. Basically, the features
between VP3 and MVP3 are almost identical, except the system clock of MVP3 is
100MHz and VP3 has the 66.6MHz system clock.
PT-5V3T / 5VMT is designed for the high performance Pentium or other equivalent
processors for high-end application and it is a true GREEN-PC computer system. The
product name will be PT-5V3T when the VP3 chipset is installed onboard. If the MVP3
chipset is populated on the board, the product mane will become PT-5VMT.
This system board supports the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Local Bus
standard (PCI Specification Rev. 2.1 compliant). It not only breaks through the I/O
bottlenecks if the traditional ISA mainboard, but also provides the performance needs
for networking and multi-user environments.
The mainboard has built-in two channels PIO and Bus Master Enhanced PCI IDE port,
one Floppy Disk control port, two high speed Serial ports (UARTs), one multi-mode
Parallel port, one PS/2 keyboard port, one PS/2 mouse port, one IR port, two USB
ports, and supports PC97 specification.
The Accelerated Graphic Port (A.G.P.) on the board is designed for the updated AGP
3D video display card. Unlike the traditional PCI-based display cards. AGP technology
provides lightening data throughput to fully facilitate the 3Diminsional and multimedia
graphic display. The data transfer rate on the AGP port can be as fast as 133MHz and it
is much faster than the traditional 33MHz PCI VGA cards.
The AGP is a new video display technology and it requires the device driver or new
operating system to enable the accelerated graphic feature. Windows
®
98 will supports
AGP directly, but Windows® 95 still needs the appropriate device drivers to enable the
AGP feature. Please don’t worry about the device driver, you can always find the
device driver included in the AGP card.
