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MS-6570 ATX Mainboard
Mainboard Specifications
CPU
h Supports Socket A (Socket-462) for AMD
®
Athlon™/Athlon™ XP /Duron™
processors @ FSB 100/133/166
h Supports 600MHz up to Athlon XP 2700
+
MHz processor or higher
Chipset
h NVIDIA nForce2 IGP
- Integrated TV encoder
- Supports DDR 266/333 with internal graphic core, DDR266/333/400 with
external add-on card
- AGP 3.0 8x interface at 533MHz
h NVIDIA nForce2 MCP2 or MCP2-T
- AC97 Interface supporting up to two concurrent codecs
- Ultra ATA-133 for the fastest hard disk throughput
- USB 2.0 EHCI/1.1 OHCI controller
- FireWire
®
for the fastest digital connectivity (MCP2-T only)
- Audio Processing Unit (APU) encodes audio in Dolby
®
Digital 5.1 format
for full surround sound effects (MCP2-T only)
Main Memory
h Supports six memory banks using three 184-pin DDR DIMMs
h Supports PC3200/2700/2100/1600 DDR SDRAMs, maximum size up to 3GB
h Supports both 64-bit and 128-bit DDR SDRAM
Slots
h One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) 1.5V 4x/8x slot
h Five 32-bit PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface)
h One ACR (Advanced Communication Riser) slot
On-Board IDE
h An IDE controller on the MCP2/MCP2-T chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-
ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes
h Can connect up to four IDE devices
On-Board Peripherals
h On-Board Peripherals include:
- 1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and