Chapter 1
Introduction
This mainboard has a
Socket-A
support for the
AMD K7
processors. The Socket-A processor’s front-side bus speed is
400
MHz
.
This mainboard has the
VIA KT600
Northbridge and VT8237
Southbridge chipsets that provide the support for
Serial ATA
devices, which is a new interface for high-performance and
mainstream desktop PCs, at a bandwidth of
150MB/s
per port. It
supports the
AC 97 audio codec
, the
Ultra DMA
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function, and the built-in
USB 2.0
providing higher bandwidth. It
implements
Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0
and
is compliant with
UHCI 1.1
and
EHCI 0.95
.
This mainboard has five 32-bit
PCI
slots, one
8xAGP
slot, one
CNR
(Communications and Networking Riser) slot, and an
onboard
10BaseT/100BaseTX Network
interface (optional). In
addition, this mainboard has a full set of I/O ports including two
PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard, one serial port, one parallel
port and maximum eight
USB2.0
ports– four back-panel ports and
onboard USB connectors USB2/3 providing two extra ports by
connecting the Extended USB Module to the mainboard.
This mainboard is an
ATX size
mainboard and has power
connectors for an ATX power supply.
