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ASUS A7V266 User’s Manual
2.1 ASUS A7V266 Motherboard
The ASUS A7V266 motherboard is targeted diversely for home PCs, workstations
and servers. Powered by AMD
®
Athlon
™
/Duron
™
processor and bundled with
advanced features to provide superlative performance, the A7V266 efficiently
complies with today’s demand for a flexible high-integration system.
2.1.1 Specifications
• AMD
®
Athlon
™
/Duron
™
Processor Support: Supports Socket A-based AMD
Athlon
™
/Duron
™
processors.
• North Bridge System Chipset: Features the VIA
®
VT8366 North Bridge that
supports AGP 4X/2X mode, 133/100MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), and
266/200MHz memory bus.
• South Bridge System Chipset: VIA
®
VT8233 integrated peripheral controller
supports UltraDMA/100/66/33 for burst mode data transfer rates of up to 100MB/
sec, and USB controller with three root hubs for six USB ports.
• PC2100 / PC1600 DDR Support: Equipped with three Double Data Rate Dual
Inline Memory Module (DDR DIMM) sockets to support up to 3GB of DDR
DRAM. DDR DRAM is the newest memory standard with the highest bandwidth
and lowest latency currently available and dramatically improves the memory
system’s ability to service, among others, high multimedia requirements. (Caution:
Do not attempt to use SDRAM modules.)
• JumperFree™ Mode: Allows processor settings and easy overclocking of
frequency and Vcore voltage through BIOS. Easy-to-use DIP switches come
with the motherboard board to allow manual adjustment of the processor external/
internal frequency.
• UltraDMA/100 Support: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller
with two connectors that support four IDE devices on two channels. Supports
UltraDMA/100, UltraDMA/66, UltraDMA/33, PIO Modes 3 & 4, Bus Master
IDE DMA Mode 2, and Enhanced IDE devices, such as DVD-ROM, CD-ROM,
CD-R/RW, LS-120, and Tape Backup drives.
• AGP Pro Slot: Comes with an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Pro slot that
supports high performance AGP cards targeted at 3D graphical applications
supporting 133MHz 4X mode. The slot is backward compatible with AGP 4X/
2X cards.
• PC Health Monitoring: Provides an easy way to test and manage system status
information, such as CPU and system voltages, temperatures, and fan status
through the onboard hardware ASUS ASIC and the bundled ASUS PC Probe.
• SMBus: Features the System Management Bus interface used to physically
transport commands and information between SMBus devices.
2. FEATURES
Specifications
2. FEATURES