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Introducing the Motherboard
Feature
• Accommodates Intel P4 Prescott and Pentium D processors
• Supports Front Side Bus (FSB) speeds of 800/533/400 MHz
• Supports “Hyper-Threading” technology CPU
The RC410 Northbridge (NB) and M1573 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are based on an
innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and performance.
RC410 (NB)
• 64-bit single-channel DDR/DDR2 SDRAM interface
• Supports one PCI Express x16 for Graphics Interface, fully
compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision
1.0a.
• Full support for 3D primitive, Direct3D texture lighting, and
OpenGL format for Indirect Vertices in Vertex Walker
• Full DirectX 9.0 support (Vertex Shader version 2.0 and
Pixel Shader version 2.0)
The RC410-M2 uses an LGA775 type of Pentium 4 that carries the following features:
Processor
Chipset
M1573 (SB) • Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification, Revision
1.0a
• Compliant with PCI 2.3 specificaiton
• Four Serial ATA devices supported, compliant with Serial
ATA 1.0 specification, 1.5Gb/s data rate
• Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to eight
USB 2.0 ports
• Integrated IDE controller supports Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33
modes
• Intel HD Audio compliant, supporting 8-channel audio output
• DDR2 667/533/400 DDR SDRAM supported
• Accommodates two unbuffered DIMMs, up to 2 GB maximum memory size
Memory
• 8 channels of DAC support 16/20/24-bit PCM format for 7.1 audio solution
• Supports 44.1K/48K/96K/192KHz DAC sample rate
• Power support: Digital: 3.3V; Analog: 3.3V/5.0V
• Meets Microsoft WHQL/WLP 2.0 audio requirements
• Direct Sound 3D
TM
compatible
• Dolby
R
Digital Encoder output for consumer electronic application
Audio
“Hyper-Threading” technology enables the operating system into thinking it’s hooked
up to two processors, allowing two threads to be run in parallel, both on separate
“logical” processors within the same physical processor.