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Processor
The motherboard uses a 462-pin Socket that has the following
features:
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Supports 400/333/266/200 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB)
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Accommodates AMD Athlon XP/Sempron/Athlon/Duron
CPU
•
200/166/133 MHz DDR (Double Data Rate) transfer on
Athlon XP/Sempron/Athlon/Duron CPU address and data
buses
Chipset
The motherboard integrates the NVIDIA
®
nForce
TM
2 Ultra-400
Northbridge and NVIDIA
®
nForce
TM
MCP Southbridge chipsets.
A few of the chipset’s advanced features are:
•
High speed 800MB/sec HyperTransportTM interface to
the MCP Southbridge
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200/166/133 MHz DDR (Double Data Rate) transfer on
Athlon XP/Sempron/Athlon/Duron CPU address and data
buses
•
8x AGP 3.0 interface at 533 MHz
•
PCI 2.2 compatible interface supporting 5 PCI slots
•
Dual fast ATA-133 IDE controllers
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10/100BaseT
•
USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller Interface
(EHCI)/Open Host Controller Interface (OHCI) controller
•
Dual System Management Bus (SMBus) controllers
•
AC’97 interface supporting up to two concurrent codes
Memory
The motherboard supports three 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM
slots, which accommodates 3GB for PC1600/2100/2700 (2GB
for PC3200). It also features dual-channel mode of 128-bit
data transfer rate.
Graphics
The motherboard includes an AGP slot that provides eight
times the bandwidth of the original AGP specification. The
AGP 3.0 (8x AGP) offers a significant increase in performance
along with feature enhancements to AGP2.0. This interface
represents the natural evolution from the existing AGP to meet
the ever-increasing demands placed on the graphic interfaces
within the workstation and desktop environments.
Audio
The AC’ 97 Audio codec is compliant with the AC 97 2.2 speci-
fication that meets the PC2001 requirements and supports
S/PDIF Out. It also has a built-in buffer and internal PLL. Fea-
tures include support for analog switch for rear-out (share), the
line-in jack (share), center/bass (share), and MIC jack to out-
put 6 channels audio.
Expansion
Options
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
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Five 32-bit PCI slots
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One AGP slot (supports 1.5V AGP Interface only)
•
Two IDE connectors which support four IDE channels and
a floppy disk drive interface
The motherboard supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with
transfer rates of 33/66/100/133 MB/sec.