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AC’ 97 Audio
Codec
The AC’ 97 Audio codec is compliant with the AC’ 97 2.2
specification, and supports 18-bit ADC (Analog Digital Con-
verter) and DAC (Digital Analog Converter) resolution as well
as 18-bit stereo full-duplex codec with independent and vari-
able sampling rates. Further features include support for four
analog line-level stereo inputs.
Expansion
Options
MS8147C has five 32-bit PCI slots, an AGP slot (supports
1.5V 4x/8x AGP card only) and CNR (Communications and
Networking Riser) slot.
The MS8147C supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer
rates of 33/66/100/133 MB/sec.
The Realtek RTL8100B LAN chip is incorporated in the chipset
providing the mainboard with 10/100Mbps fast Ethernet con-
troller and integrated Ethernet PCI LAN capabilities.
Onboard LAN
(optional)
The VT6103 is a Physical Layer device for Ethernet 10BASE-T
and 100BASE-TX using category 5 Unshielded, Type 1
Shielded, and Fiber Optic cables.
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Dual Speed – 100/10 Mbps
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Half And Full Duplex
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Meet All Applicable IEEE 802.3, 10Base-T and 100Base-
Tx Standards
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Adaptive Equalizer
1394a (optional)
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VT6306 PCI 1394a integrated host controller
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Compliant with 1394 open HCI specifications v1.0 and
v1.1
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Supports provisions of IEEE 1394-1995 standard for high
performance serial bus and the P1394a supplement 4.0
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32 bit CRC generator and checker for receive and trans-
mit data
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Compliant with PCI specification v2.2
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High-performance bus mastering support
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Provides three 1394a fully compliant cable ports at
100/200/400 Mbit per second
Promise 20265
(optional — RAID
function is only
for model
MS8147CR)
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Supports Ultra ATA100 drives and backward compatible
with Ultra ATA66/33 & EIDE drives (identical drives rec-
ommended)
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Supports IDE RAID 1 (mirroring) or 0 (striping)
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Supports UDMA 5/4/3/2/1/0, DMA 2/1/0, PIO 4/3/2/1/0
modes
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Two independent IDE channels support up to four
UDMA/100/66/33 or EIDE drives
Integrated I/O
The mainboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
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Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
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Two serial port
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One parallel port
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Four USB ports
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One 1394a port (optional)
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Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
