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Motherboard User’s Guide
Serial ATA
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Two Serial ATA Connectors
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Transfer rate exceeding best ATA (3.0 Gb/s) with scalability to higher
rates
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Low pin count for both host and devices
Onboard IDE channels
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One IDE Connector
•
Supports PIO (Programmable Input/Output) and DMA (Direct Memory
Access) modes
•
Supports IDE Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of
133
/100/
66 MB/sec
Expansion Slots
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Two 32-bit PCI slots
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One
PCI Expressx16
slot
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One
PCI Expressx1
slot
Memory Support
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Two 240-pin DIMM sockets for DDR2 SDRAM memory modules
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Supports
DDR2 667
/533/400 memory bus
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Maximum installed memory is 4 GB
•
System Memory Controller Support: DDR2 SDRAM with up to
maximum memory of 4 GB.
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PCI Express Graphics Interface Support: One PCI Express x16 port
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PCI Bus Interface Support: PCI Revision 2.3 Specification at 33MHz
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Integrade Serial ATA Host Controller: Independent DMA operation on
two ports with Data transfer rates up to 3.0 Gb/s
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Intgrated IDE Controller: Ultra DMA-133/100/66 Bus Master EIDE
Controller
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USB 2.0: Integrated USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to eight functional
ports
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Hyper-Threading Technology
•
High Performance Host Interface: Supports
* Intel
®
Core
TM
2 Quad/
Intel
®
Core
TM
2 Duo/Pentium
®
4/Celeron
®
D
processor family with
FSB 1066 MHz
There are
P4M900 CD Northbridge
and
VT8237S
in the chipsets in accordance
with an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and perfor-
mance.
Chipset
