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Introducing the Motherboard
Integrated I/O
This motherboard supports UltraDMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 133/
100/66/33 MB/s.
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
Expansion Options
• Two PCI Express x16 slots (SLI mode: x8+x8, single PCI-E is x8
mode)
for Graphic Interface
• Two PCI Express x1 slots
• Three 32-bit PCI v2.3 compliant slots
• Two 40-pin IDE connectors supporting up to four IDE devices
• One floppy disk drive connector
• Four 7-pin SATA connectors
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different processor clock
speeds.
• Power management
• Wake-up alarms
• CPU parameters
• CPU and memory timing
BIOS Firmware
This motherboard uses Award BIOS that enables users to configure many
system features including the following:
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice.
The onboard Audio controller provides the following features:
Audio
1394a FireWire (Optional)
• Compliant with single chip host controller for IEEE Std 1394-1995
and IEEE 1394a-2000
• Integrated 400 Mb/s 2-Port PHY for the PCI BUS
• 3.3V Power Supply with 5V Tolerant Inputs
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port
• One parallel port (optional)
• Four USB ports
• One LAN port
• One 1394A port (optional)
• Two S/PIDF out ports
• Audio jacks for microphone in, line-in and 8-channel line-out
• 8 Channels of DAC support 16/20/24-bit PCM Format for 7.1 Audio
Solution
• All ADCs support 48K/192KHz Independent Sample Rate
• Exceeds Microsoft PC2001 Requirements
• High Quality Differential CD input
• Power Support: Digital: 3.3V; Analog:3.3V/5.0V
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