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Motherboard User’s Guide
Chipset
There are AMD740G Northbridge and SB700
Southbridge in this chipset in accor-
dance with an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and per-
formance.
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One x4 A-Link Express II interface (PCI Express 1.1 compliant) for
connection to an AMD Southbridge
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Supports one PCI Express x16 for Graphics Interface, fully compliant to
the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.1
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Fully supports ACPI states S0, S1,S2, S3, S4, and S5
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Single chip solution in 80nm, 1.2 V CMOS technology
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Compliant with PCI 2.3 specification at 33 MHz
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Supports four Serial ATA devices which speeds up to 3.0 Gb/s
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Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to eight USB 2.0 ports
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Integrated IDE controller supports Ultra ATA 133/100/66/33 modes
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Supports integrated RAID0, RAID1, and RAID 10 (requires use of 4 or
more SATA ports) functionalities across all 6 ports
Memory Support
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Two 240-pin DIMM sockets for DDR SDRAM memory modules
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Supports DDR3 1333/1066 memory bus
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Maximum installed memory is 8 GB
Expansion Slots
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One PCI Express x1 slot
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One PCI Express x16 slot
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Two 32-bit PCI slots for PCI 2.3 compliant bus interface
Onboard IDE channels
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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
MB/sec
Serial ATA
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Four Serial ATA Connectors
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Transfer rate exceeding best ATA (~1.5 Gb/s) with scalability to higher
rates
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Low pin count for both host and devices
