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Motherboard User’s Guide
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard has a Socket-754 supporting the newest and advanced AMD
Athlon 64/Sempron with HyperTransport Technology processors and Front-
Side Bus (FSB) speeds up to 800 MHz.
It integrates the SiS761GX Northbridge and SiS965L Southbridge that supports
the built-in USB 2.0 providing higher bandwidth, implementing Universal Serial
Bus Specification Revision 2.0 and is compliant with UHCI 1.1 and EHCI 0.95.
It supports AC’ 97 Audio Codec and provides Ultra DMA 133/100/66 function.
It has one PCI Express x16, one AGPro, one CNR and two 32-bit PCI slots.
There is a full set of I/O ports including two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard,
one serial port, one parallel port, one LAN port(optional), one VGA port, three
audio jacks for Line-in, Line-out and Microphone, four back-panel USB2.0 ports
and onboard USB headers providing extra ports by connecting the Extended USB
Module to the motherboard.
This motherboard is a Micro ATX size motherboard and has power connectors
for an ATX power supply.
Key Features
The key features of this motherboard include:
Socket-754 Processor Support
• Supports AMD Athlon 64/Sempron processors
• Supports Front-Side Bus 800 MHz
Note: HyperTransport Technology is a point-to-point link between two
devices, it enables integrated circuits to exchange information at much
higher speeds than currently available interconnect technologies.
Chipset
There are SiS761GX Northbridge and SiS965L Southbridge in this chipset in
accordance with an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability
and performance.
• High Performance Host Interface:
-Supports AMD Athlon 64, Athlon 64FX, Sempron CPUs
−HyperTransport compliant bus driver with auto compensation
capability
• Integrated Host-to-PCI Express Bridge:
−1 GB/s performance in 133MHz x 4 mode
−Distributed arbitration strategy with enhanced mode of contiguous
DMA data streaming
• High Performance & High Quality 3D Graphics Accelerator:
−Built-in 32-bit floating point format VLIM triangle setup engine
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