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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard has a
LGA775
socket
for latest
Intel Pentium D/Pentium 4/
Celeron D
processors with
Hyper-Threading Technology
and Front-Side Bus
(FSB) speeds up to
800 MHz
. Hyper-Threading Technology, designed to take
advantage of the multitasking features in Windows XP, gives you the power to
do more things at once.
It integrates the
SiS661GX
Northbridge and
SiS964L
Southbridge
that
supports the built-in
USB 2.0
providing higher bandwidth, implementing
Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0
and is compliant with
UHCI
1.1
and
EHCI 0.95
. It supports
AC’ 97 Audio Codec
and provides
Ultra DMA
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/100/66
function. It has one
8X AGP
, one
CNR
and three 32-bit
PCI
slots.
There is a full set of I/O ports including two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard,
one serial port, one parallel port, one LAN port(optional), one
VGA
port, three
audio jacks for Line-in, Line-out and Microphone, four back-panel USB2.0 ports
and onboard USB headers providing extra ports by connecting the Extended USB
Module to the motherboard.
It is a Micro
ATX
motherboard and has power connectors for an ATX power
supply.
Key Features
The key features of this motherboard include:
LGA775 Socket Processor
•
Supports the latest
Intel Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron D
processors
with
Hyper-Threading Technology
•
Supports up to
800 MHz
Front-Side Bus
Hyper-Threading
technology enables the operating system into
thinking it’s
hooked up to two processors, allowing two threads to be run in
parallel, both on separate ‘logical’ processors within the same physical
processor.
Chipset
There are
SiS661GX Northbridge
and
SiS964L
in the chipsets in accordance
with an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and perfor-
mance.
•
Integrated A.G.P. Compliant Target/66Mhz Host-to-PCI Bridge:
Universal AGP v3.5 Compliant and Support 1.5V AGP Interface Only
•
High Performance & High Quality 3D Graphics Accelerator: Built-in a
high performance 256-bit 3D engine