Micronics C400 System Board Manual
Chapter 5: Special Features
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Chapter
5
Special Features
The Micronics C400 achieves high reliability, performance
and scalability with numerous features.
Intel’s 440BX AGPset
In the competitive world of system board chipsets, Intel’s
new 440BX places at the top with its support for the
100MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) technol-
ogy. The 440BX is the infrastructure
behind the 100MHz FSB technology.
Along with PC-100 memory and Intel’s
new versions of the Pentium II processor
family, the 440BX AGPset adds a new
data highway that should post a substan-
tial increase in bus and memory access. The flexibility of
the 440BX allows for support of the first generation Pentium
II processors at 66MHz FSB speeds.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
With the introduction of the Pentium II and the 440LX
AGPset, graphics took the next step onto the AGP free-
way. The AGP bus is
faster than the current
33MHz PCI bus. It pro-
vides a direct connection
between the graphics
subsystem and system
memory. AGP, with dual
528MB/s data path, sur-
passes PCI’s 132MB
bottleneck.
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