User`s guide

Motherboard User’s Guide

• High Bandwidth 1 GB/Sec 16-Bit Ultra V-Link Host Controller --

Supports 66MHz, 4X and 8X transfer modes, Ultra V-Link Host

interface with total bandwidth of 1 GB/sec

• Advanced System Power Management Support -- ACPI 2.0 and PCI

Bus Power Management 1.2 compliant

• PCI to system memory data streaming up to 132Mbyte/sec (data sent to

north bridge via high speed Ultra V-Link interface)

• PCI-2.2 compliant, 32-bit 3.3V PCI interface with 5V tolerant inputs

• Support three PCI slots of arbitration and decoding for all integrated

functions and LPC bus.

• Dual Channel Serial ATA/RAID Controller—Complies with Serial ATA

Specification Revision 1.0

Memory Support

• Two 184-pin 2.5V DIMM sockets for DDR SDRAM memory modules

• Supports DDR400/333/266 memory bus

• Maximum installed memory is 2GB

Expansion Slots

• One CNR slot

• One 8X AGP slot

• Three 32-bit PCI slots

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

Serial ATA

• Two Serial ATA Connectors

• Transfer rate exceeding best ATA (~150 MB/s) with scalability to higher

rates

• Low pin count for both host and devices

AC’97 Codec

• Compliant with AC’97 2.3 specification

• 16-bit Stereo full-duplex CODEC with independent and variable

sampling rate

• Support for 3.3v digital, 5v analog power supply and low power

consumption management

• Three analog line-level stereo inputs with 5-bit volume control:

LINE_IN, CD, AUX

• Front-Out, Surround-Out, MIC-In and LINE-In Jack Sensing

• Two analog line-level mono input