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Introducing the Motherboard
This motherboard supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 133/
100/66/33 MB/s.
• One PCI Express x16 for Graphics Interface
• One PCI Express x1 slots
• Three 32-bit PCI v2.3 compliant slots
• One IDE connector supporting up to two IDE devices
• One floppy disk drive interface
• Four 7-pin SATA connectors
Expansion Options
Integrated I/O
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port
• One ESATA port (optional)
• Four USB ports
• One LAN port (optional)
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6/8-channel (optional) line-out
BIOS Firmware
• Power management
• Wake-up alarms
• CPU parameters
• CPU and memory timing
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice.
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
The motherboard uses Award BIOS that enables users to configure many system
features including the following:
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different processor clock
speeds.
Onboard LAN (Optional)
• Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Controller for PCI Express
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Applications
• Integrated 10/100/1000 transceiver
• Wake-on-LAN and remote wake-up support
The onboard LAN provides the following features: