User`s guide

Chapter 1: Introduction

Expansion Slots

• Five 32-bit PCI slots

• One 8x AGP slot

• One CNR 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

Onboard VGA

• Built-in a high performance 256-bit 3D engine

• Supports AGP 2.0 compliant configuration setting

• Supports AGP 4X 266 MHz with 16 stages pipeline full

side-band/pipe function

AC’97 Audio Codec

• 6-CH hardware architecture allows multi-channel south

bridge to playback 6CH audio

• Intel

AC’97 (REV. 2.3) compatible, meeting Microsoft

PC2001 requirements

• Built-in earphone buffer and internal PLL, the latter saving

additional crystal

• Line-in/rear out share the same jack; Center/bass share the

MIC jack

• Digital S/PDIF OUT Support

• CRL

3D: HRTF based BS3D compatible audio engine

Onboard I/O Ports

The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:

• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard

• One serial port

• One parallel port