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HARDWARE CONFIGURATION
The Mendocino® PPGA motherboard is based on the VIA® Apollo Pro(plus)
Chipset. The chipset is a highly integrated solution enabling a high performance
motherboard and desktop design for the Mendocino PPGA. The main board
supports standard DIMM module, PC-100 DIMM module or Registered DIMM
module. The features on board include Super-I/O, Ultra DMA33 / PCI bus
master IDE, AGP 1.0 compliance, PCI 2.1 compliance, USB, VRM 8.2 compliance,
ECC, ATX specification 1.0 compliant, Hardware monitoring (optional), on-board
sound system (optional).
This motherboard is ready for PC99 requirements.
Key Features
Motherboard PCB
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4-layer, ATX design.
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PCB dimensions : 303x173mm.
Processor
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Full support for the Mendocino® PPGA processors using PGA370 Socket.
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Support bus speed of 66MHz, this includes all 300MHz to 400MHz
Mendocino® PPGA processors and future processors.
CPU Speed Jumperless
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No jumper is needed to set for various speed of CPU.
VRM (Voltage Regulator Modules) on Board
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Flexible motherboard design with on-board VRM 8.2, easy to upgrade
with Intel’s® Future Overdrive® processors.
Cache
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Processor built-in L2 128K cache.
System Memory
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A total of three 168-pin DIMM sockets.
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Supports Synchronous DRAM at 66/100MHz (PC100).
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Memory size up to 768Mbytes.
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Supports Symmetrical and Asymmetrical DRAM addressing
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Supports single density DIMMs of 1M, 2M, 4M, 8M and 16M depth (x64
or x72).
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Supports double density DIMMs of 2M, 4M, 8M, 16M and 32M depth
(x64 or 72).
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Supports single & double sided DIMMs.
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Supports Error Checking and Correction (ECC) using parity DRAM modules.
On-Board I/O
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Two PCI fast IDE ports supporting up to 4 ATA2, Ultra DMA 33 IDE HDDs,
CD-Roms, ZIP devices and LS-120 drives as boot drive.
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Supports bus master IDE, PIO mode 4 (up to 16M bytes/sec) and Ultra
DMA 33 (up to 33M bytes/sec) transfer.
Hardware Setup
