User`s guide

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Motherboard User’s Guide
Note: You must initiate the HT CPU function through BIOS setup. It is
strongly recommended you refer to Page 40 for relative details.
Key Features
The key features of this motherboard include:
Socket-478 Processor Support
• Supports Intel Prescott/Pentium 4 Series processors
with Hyper-Threading Technology
• Supports up to 800 MHz Front-Side Bus
Hyper-Threading technology enables the operating system
into thinking it’s hooked up to two processors, allowing two
threads to be run in parallel, both on separate ‘logical’
processors within the same physical processor.
Chipset
There are Intel 865PE Northbridge and Intel 82801EB I/O
Controller Hub (ICH5) in the chipsets in accordance with an
innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and
performance.
• Supports either an integrated graphics device (IGD) or an
external graphics device on AGP. The AGP interface
supports 1X/4X/8X AGP data transfers and 4X/8X AGP
Fast Writes.
• Supports 4 GB of system memory and has a maximum
bandwidth of 6.4 GB/s using DDR400 in dual-channel
mode.
• Integrates an Ultra ATA 100 controller, two Serial ATA host
controllers, one EHCI host controller, and four UHCI host
controllers supporting eight external USB 2.0 ports.
• PCI Bus Interface: supports PCI Revision 2.3 Specification
• Integrated LAN Controller: WfM 2.0 and IEEE802.3
Compliant