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Expansion Options
The mainboard comes with the following expansion options:
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Five 32-bit PCI slots
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One 8xAGP slot
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One CNR (Communications and Networking Riser) slot
Onboard IDE
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Two IDE Connectors
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Supports PIO (Programmable Input/Output) and DMA
(Direct Memory Access) modes
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Supports IDE Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates
of
133
/100/66/33 MB/sec
Serial ATA
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Two Serial ATA Connectors
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Transfer rate exceeding best ATA (~150 MB/s) with
scalability to higher rates
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Low pin count for both host and devices
Onboard I/O Ports
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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One serial port
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One parallel port
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Eight USB2.0 ports (four back-panel ports, onboard USB
connectors providing four extra ports)
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Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
BIOS Firmware
This mainboard uses AMI BIOS that enables users to configure
many system features including the following:
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Power management
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Wake-up alarms
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CPU parameters and memory timing
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CPU and memory timing
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different
processor clock speeds.
