Chapter 1 Motherboard Description
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Sophisticated Power Management Features
− Independent clock stop controls for CPU / SDRAM,Internal AGP and
PCI bus.
− PCI and AGP bus clock run and clock generator control.
− Low-leakage I/O pads.
General Graphic Capabilities
− 64-bit Single Cycle 2D/3D Graphics Engine.
− Supports 2 to 8 Mbytes of Frame Buffer located in System Memory.
− Real Time DVD MPEG-2 and AC-3 Playback.
− Video Processor.
− I
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C Serial Interface.
− Integrated 24-bit 230MHz True Color DAC.
− Extended Screen Resolutions up to 1600x1200.
− Extended Text Modes 80 or 132 columns by 25/30/43/60 rows.
− DirectX 6 and OpenGL ICD API.
High Performance rCADE3D™ Accelerator
− 32 entry command queue,32 entry data queue.
− 4Kbyte texture cache with over 90% hit rates.
− Pipelined Single Cycle Setup / Texturing /Rendering Engines.
− DirectDraw™ acceleration.
− Multiple buffering and page flipping.
Setup Engine
− 32-bit IEEE floating point input data.
− Slope and vertex calculations.
− Back facing triangle culling.
− 1/16 sub-pixel positioning.
Rendering Engine
− High performance single pass execution.
− Diffused and specula lighting.
− Gouraud and flat shading.
− Anti-aliasing including edge,scene,and super-sampling.
− OpenGL compliant blending for fog and depth-cueing.
− 16-bit Z-buffer.
− 8/16/32 bit per pixel color formats.