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Introducing the Mainboard
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Congratulations on purchasing this mainboard. This main-
board is an ATX mainboard that uses a 4-layer printed circuit
board and measures 304 mm x 190 mm. The mainboard fea-
tures a Socket 370 that accommodates FC-PGA Pentium III,
and Cyrix III processors that support frontside bus (FSB)
speeds up to 133 MHz.
This mainboard uses the VIA family chipset and features the
AC 97 audio codec. The mainboard delivers high-level
performance with a 4xAGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slot
and two PCI Bus Master Ultra DMA (UDMA) ports that support
up to four ATAPI (AT Attachment Packet Interface) devices.
The PCI IDE also supports PIO Mode 3 and 4, UDMA33/66
IDE, and an ATAPI CD-ROM.
The mainboard accommodates PC 100/133 SDRAM (Syn-
chronous DRAM) up to 1.5 GB using three 3.3V unbuffered
DIMM modules. This mainboard also has a full set of I/O
ports, such as dual channel IDE interfaces, a floppy controller,
two FIFO serial port connectors, an EPP/ECP-capable bi-
directional parallel port connector, a dual USB (Universal Se-
rial Bus) connector, and PS/2 keyboard and mouse
connectors.
One AGP slot, four PCI local bus slots, two ISA slots and one
audio modem riser (AMR) slot provide expandability for add-on
peripheral cards.
