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Motherboard User’s Guide
• Built-in a high performance 256-bit 3D engine and 32-bit floating point
format VLIW triangle setup engine
• Integrated Multi-threaded I/O link ensures concurrency of upstream/
down stream data transfer with 1.2GB/s bandwidth
• PCI 2.2 Specification Compliance
• Integrated Multithreaded IO Link Mastering
• Multithread I/O link Mastering with Read/Write Concurrent transaction
Memory Support
• Two 184-pin, 2.5V DIMM sockets for DDR SDRAM memory modules
• Supports DDR333/266 memory bus
• Maximum installed memory is 2GB
Expansion Slots
• Two 32-bit PCI slots
• One 8X AGP slot
• One CNR (Communications and Networking Riser) slot
Onboard IDE channels
• Two IDE Connectors
• Supports PIO (Programmable Input/Output) and DMA (Direct Memory
Access) modes
• Supports IDE Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 133/100/
66 MB/sec
AC’97 Codec
• 6- channel and compliant with Intel AC’97 (REV. 2.3) Spec, meeting
with Microsoft PC2001 requirements
• Advanced power management and power saving capabilities.
• Stereo Line-in function shared with Surround out.
• High quality pseudo-differential analog CD Audio input.
• S/PDIF Output support: Output 96 / 48 kHz with 24 / 20 / 16 bits
• Valuable add-on software technology: Support most industry standards
of PC 3D sound and unique karaoke function support featured with
microphone echo, key shifting, and vocal cancellation.
Onboard I/O Ports
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port
• One parallel port
• One VGA port
• Four back-panel USB2.0 ports
• One LAN port (optional)
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out