Introduction
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Chapter 1 - Introduction
Specifications
Processor
• AMD Athlon
TM
64 FX / Athlon
TM
64 / Sempron
TM
• Socket 939
Front Side Bus
• 2000MT/s HyperTransport interface
Chipset
• NVIDIA nForce4
TM
SLI
- Supports NVIDIA SLI
TM
(Scalable Link Interface)
System Memory
• Four 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets
• Supports dual channel (128-bit wide) memory interface
• Supports up to 4GB system memory
• Supports PC2100 (DDR266), PC2700 (DDR333) and PC3200
(DDR400) DDR SDRAM DIMM
• Supports x8/x16 ECC/non-ECC unbuffered DIMMs, up to
512Mb DDR devices
Expansion Slots
• 2 PCI Express x16 slots (operates at x8 bandwidth)
• 2 PCI Express x1 slots
• 3 PCI slots
SLI (Scalable Link Interface) Mode
• Use 2 SLI-ready PCI Express x16 graphics cards (use identical
cards) on the PCI Express x16 slots.
• In SLI mode, the bandwidth of each x16 slot works at the
bandwidth of x8. When the graphics cards are connected via the
SLI bridge, it runs at x16 bandwidth.
Refer to chapter 2 for more information about NVIDIA SLI
technology.