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Motherboard User’s Guide
• High Performance HyperTransport CPU Interface -- Processor interface
via HyperTransport interface
• Full Featured Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Controller
− − AGP v3.0 compliant 8X / 4X transfer mode with Fast Write Support
− − Pipelined split-transaction long-burst transfers up to 2.1 GB/sec (4
bytes x 533 MHz)
• 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
• Two 32-bit PCI slots for PCI 2.2-compliant bus interface
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