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1.5 Major Components
1. CPU socket
2. Dual channel DDR DIMM sockets
These four 184-pin DIMM sockets support up to 4GB system
memory using unbuffered PC3200/2700/2100/1600 DDR DIMMs.
3. Northbridge controller
Socket 939 surface mount, Zero Insertion Force socket for AMD K8
Athlon 64 FX Processor support FSB 1000/800/600/400/200 MHz
that allows up to 8 GB/s data transfer rates.
5. SiS 180 Serial ATA controller
This motherboard incorporates the high performance SiS 180 IDE RAID
controller, which supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 configura-
tion.
The VIA VT8237 integrated peripheral controller supports various I/O
functions including two Serial ATA ports, dual channel UltraDMA-
133/100/66/33 master mode EIDE controller, up to eight USB 2.0
ports, AC’97 2.1 interface, and PCI 2.2 interface.
4. Southbridge controller
The VIA K8T800 PRO links with AMD 64 processor through a 16-bit/
1 GHz data transfer rate for a total bandwidth of 8 GB/s Hyper-Trans-
port interface. It also supports AGP 3.0 specification.