User`s manual

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Introducing the Mainboard
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Congratulations on purchasing the MS8137C mainboard. The
MS8137C mainboard is an ATX mainboard that uses a 4-layer
printed circuit board and measures 240 mm x 304 mm. The
mainboard features a Socket 462 that accommodates AMD
Athlon processors supporting frontside bus (FSB) speeds up
to 133 MHz.
The MS8137C incorporates the VIA VT8366 Northbridge and
VT8233 Southbridge chipsets which combine support for the
new high-bandwidth Double Data Rate (DDR) 266 SDRAM,
and the AC 97 audio codec.
Note:
SDRAM provides 800 MBps or 1 GBps data transfer
depending on whether the bus is 100 MHz or 133 MHz.
Double Data Rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM) doubles
the rate to 1.6 GBps or 2.1 GBps by transferring data
on both the rising and falling edges of the clock. DDR
SDRAM uses additional power and ground lines and
requires 184-pin DIMM modules rather than the 168-
pin DIMMs used by SDRAM.
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Compare the mainboard’s package contents with the following
checklist:
Standard Items
• One mainboard
• One diskette drive ribbon cable and bracket
• One IDE drive ribbon cable and bracket
• One auto-install software support CD
• This user’s manual