Owner manual
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Serial ATA I/II technology
and SATA-On-The-Go
The motherboard fully supports the Serial ATA II 3.0 Gb/s technology
through the Serial ATA interfaces and the Intel
®
ICH7R MCH. The Serial
ATA 3 Gb/s specication provides twice the bandwidth of the current
Serial ATA products with a host of new features, including Nativa Command
Queueing (NCQ), and Power Management (PM) Implementation Algorithm.
Serial ATA allows for thinner, more exible cables with lower pin count and
reduced voltage required.
Leveraging these Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s features is the SATA-On-The-Go.
Supported by the Jmicron
®
JMB363 Serial ATA controller are two Serial
ATA 3.0 Gb/s connectors (one at mid-board and one on the rear panel)
provide smart setup, and hot-plug function. See pages 1-27 and 1-31 for
details.
Gigabit LAN solution
NVIDIA
®
Gb LAN controller delivers transfer speeds up to ten times faster
than conventional 10/100 Ethernet connections. Gigabit LAN is the
networking standard for the early future and is ideal for handling large
amounts of data such as video, audio, and voice. See pages 1-26 for
details.
USB 2.0 technology
The motherboard implements the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0
specication, dramatically increasing the connection speed from the
12 Mbps bandwidth on USB 1.1 to a fast 480 Mbps on USB 2.0. USB 2.0 is
backward compatible with USB 1.1. See pages 1-33 for details.
8-Channel High Definition Audio
The motherboard supports 8-channel audio through the onboard ADI 1988
CODEC with 16-bit DAC, a stereo 16-bit ADC, and an AC97 2.3 compatible
multi-channel audio designed for PC multimedia systems. See pages 1-27
and 2-29 for details.
DVI-D onboard
The motherboard supports DVI-D (Digital Visual Interface) which provides
high visual quality of digital display devices, such as LCD monitor. DVI-D
interface is compatible with DVI-I connector. and See pages 1-26 for details.