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Chapter 1
Introduction of AMD 480X Motherboard Series
1-1 Features of motherboard
The AMD 480X Series motherboards are based on the latest AMD 480X Chipset and SB600 chipset
which supports the new generation innovative 64-bit AMD Socket AM2 dual core multi-tasking Socket
AM2 Athlon64 X2 processors. With an integrated low-latency high-bandwidth DDR2 memory
controller and the highly-scalable Hyper Transport technology-based system bus which is up to 1000
MHZ, AMD 480X Platform Processor Chipset motherboard series deliver the outstanding system
performance and professional desktop platform solution with the advantages of new generation 64-bit
AMD Socket AM2 Athlon64 X2 processors and the fully compatibility of the next generation
operation system.
The AMD 480X Series motherboards support new generation Socket AM2 processors with an
integrated DDR2 memory controller which provides with
266MHz / 333MHz/ 400MHz memory clock
frequency for Dual channel DDR2 533 / DDR2 667 / DDR2 800 (Sempron processor of AM2 socket
only supports up DDR2 667) DDR2 Module up to 8.0GB (The AMD 480X motherboard with no
CrossFire Tech. supported editions offer 2 DIMM slots which can only be expandable to 4 GB in
some particular models). The whole motherboard series are embedded with SB600 chipset that
provides ULTRA ATA 133 connectors and Serial ATA2 with RAID 0, 1 and RAID 10
functions
which support up to two IDE devices and four Serial ATA2 devices to accelerate hard disk drives and
guarantee the data security without failure in advanced computing performance.
The AMD 480X motherboard of CrossFire Tech. supported editions that provide 10 / 100 / 1000 LAN
function with
RTL8111 PCI-E Gigabit LAN controller which supports 10 / 100 / 1000Mbps data
transfer rate. And the embedded HD Azalia 8-channel Audio CODEC is fully compatible with Sound
Blaster Pro
®
standards offer you with the home cinema quality and satisfying software compatibility
(The AMD 480X motherboard with no CrossFire Tech. supported editions provide optional 10 / 100
LAN function with
Realtek RT8101E PCI-E 10 / 100 LAN which supports 10 / 100Mbps data transfer
rate. Embedded 6-channel AC’ 97 Audio CODEC which is also fully compatible with Sound Blaster
Pro
®
standard. ).
The AMD 480X motherboard of CrossFire Tech. supported edition offers two PCI-Express x16
graphics slots; when install the ”Switch Card” into PE-3 slot, the “PE-1” PCI-Express x16 graphics
slot offers 16-LANE Bandwidth which get 3.5 times of bandwidth more than AGP8X and up to 8
Gbyte/sec concurrent bandwidth at full speed. When activating the ATi CrossFire Technology, both of
these two PCI-Express x16 graphics slots can offer 8-lane + 8-lane bandwidth to guarantee the fully
operational multi-GPUs graphics power and avoid the possible CrossFire hardware installation error.
The AMD 480X motherboard of CrossFire Tech. supported edition carries two 32-bit PCI slots of the
rich connectivity for the I/O peripheral devices. One PCI Express x1 I/O slot offers 512Mbyte/sec
concurrently, over 3.5 times more bandwidth than PCI at 133Mbye/sec, tackling the most demanding
multimedia tasks nowadays.
The AMD 480X motherboard with no CrossFire Tech. supported editions offer one PCI-Express x16
graphics slot of 4Gbyte/sec data transfer rate at each relative direction which gets 3.5 times of
bandwidth more than AGP 8X and it’s up to a peak concurrent bandwidth of 8Gbyte/sec at full speed
to guarantee the ultimate GPU computing performance. Three 32-bit PCI slots guarantee the rich
connectivity for the I/O of peripherals. One PCI Express x1 I/O slots offer 512Mbyte/sec concurrently
