Introduction
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Expansion Slots
The system board is equipped with 1 AGP slot and 6 PCI slots.
AGP is an interface designed to support high performance 3D
graphics cards. It utilizes a dedicated pipeline to access system
memory for texturing, z-buffering and alpha blending. The universal
AGP slot supports AGP 8x with up to 2132MB/sec. bandwidth and
AGP 4x with up to 1066MB/sec . bandwidth for 3D graphics
applications. AGP in this system board will deliver faster and better
graphics to your PC.
Onboard Audio Features
• AC'97 2.2 extension compliant codec
• Supports Microsoft
®
DirectSound/DirectSound 3D
• AC’97 suppor ted with full duplex, independent sample rate
conver ter for audio recording and playback
• S/PDIF-in/out interface (S/PDIF-in is optional)
• 6-channel audio output
S/PDIF
The system board is equipped with the S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital
Interface) digital audio interface. S/PDIF is a standard audio file
transfer format that transfers digital audio signals to a device without
having to be converted first to an analog format. This prevents the
quality of the audio signal from degrading whenever it is conver ted
to analog.
