EPOX AMD Socket et A Processor based AGP (8X) mainboard - Chipset Overview

Introduction
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Chipset Overview
This board is designed with nVidia chipset, nForce2
TM
SPP as North Bridge and
nForce2
TM
MCP as South Bridge. NVIDIA
®
has developed the next generation
System Platform Processor (SPP) nForce 2, to provide the highest-
performance, fullest-featured system architecture for the AMD Athlon XP
Processor. The second generation System Platform Processor works together
with the second generation of the NVIDIA Media Communication Processor, the
MCP.
The nForce2 was architected specifically for the AMD AthlonXP Processor.
NVIDIAs patent-pending DASP (Dynamic Adaptive Speculative Pre-Processor)
technology intelligently predicts and prefetches requests from the AMD Athlon
XP Processor to boost system performance beyond its nominal speed grade.
The nForce2 SPP delivers twice the bandwidth by implementing the new NVIDIA
DualDDR Memory Architecture speed to DDR 400 memories. This generation
System Platform Processor also implements the AGP 8× interface,
HyperTransport Link, and is fully compliant with industry standard power manage-
ment specifications such as ACPI 2.0 and PCI Power Management Interface (PMI)
Spec 1.1.
The NVIDIA
®
nForce MCP Media and Communications Processor (MCP)
provides a highly integrated, high-performance, low-cost PC2001-compliant
peripheral controller that supports NVIDIA processor bridge functionality for
next-generation PCs. No other single-device controller provides all the function-
ality of NVIDIAs MCP.