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Introducing the Motherboard
This motherboard supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 133/100/66/
33 MB/s.
:
• One PCI Express x16 for Graphics Interface
• One PCI Express x1 slots
• Three 32-bit PCI v2.3 compliant slots
• One IDE connector supporting up to two IDE devices
• One floppy disk drive interface
• Two 7-pin SATA connectors (MCP65S: Four 7-pin SATA connectors)
Expansion Options
Integrated I/O
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port
• One ESATA port (optional)
• Four USB ports
• One LAN port (optional)
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6/8-channel (optional) line-out
BIOS Firmware
The motherboard uses Award BIOS that enables users to configure many system features
including the following:
• Power management
• Wake-up alarms
• CPU parameters
• CPU and memory timing
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different processor clock speeds.
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice.
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options: