Owner's 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 1-30 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 1-25 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 1-32 for details.
8-Channel High Denition 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 1-25 and 2-26 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 1-25 for details.