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Introducing the Mainboard
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Thank you for choosing the SV266A mainboard. The SV266A is a high per-
formance and high quality mainboard which is built around the latest and
fastest VIA KT266A + VT8235 chipset providing superior performance be-
tween the CPU, DRAM, AGP bus, and V-Link bus with pipelined, burst and
concurrent operation. This mainboard supports Socket 462 that accommo-
dates AMD Athlon processors with a frontside bus (FSB) speeds up to
133MHz.
The KT266A supports four banks of SDR/DDR Synchronous DRAMs up to
2GB for unbuffered modules. It also fully supports full AGP v2.0 capability for
maximum bus utilization including 1x, 2x and 4x mode transfers, SBA (Side-
Band Addressing), Flush/Fence commands and pipelined grants.
The VT8235 Southbridge supports standard intelligent peripheral controllers
such as USB v2.0/1.1 and Universal HCI v2.0/1.1 compliant, real time clock
with 256 byte extended CMOS, integrated bus-mastering dual full-duplex di-
rect-sound AC97 link compatible sound system and full System Management
Bus (SMBus) interface.
Sufficient expansion is provided for with one AGP slot, five 32-bit PCI slot and
one CNR slot. It also comes with a built-in Enhanced PCI Bus Master PCI IDE
controller that provides high-speed connections to full range of IDE devices
such as HDD and CD-ROM. This mainboard is designed in a standard ATX
form factor using a 4-layer printed circuit board and measures 305 mm x 244
mm.
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Compare the mainboard’s package contents with the following checklist:
Standard Items
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One mainboard
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One diskette drive ribbon cable
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One IDE drive ribbon cable
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One auto-install software support CD
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This user’s manual
