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ASUS CUV4X-M User’s Manual
2.1 The ASUS CUV4X-M
The ASUS CUV4X-M motherboard is carefully designed for the demanding PC
user who wants advanced features processed by the fastest processors.
2.1.1 Specifications
• Latest Processor Support
Intel Pentium
®
III 133MHz FSB Coppermine core FC-PGA
Intel Pentium
®
III 100MHz FSB Coppermine core FC-PGA
Intel Celeron™ 100MHz FSB Mendocino core PPGA
VIA Cyrix
®
III 133MHz FSB PPGA
• North Bridge System Chipset: Features the VIA VT82C694X system controller
or VIA Apollo Pro133A PCI-to-ISA bridge with support for AGP 4x mode; 133/
100/66MHz Front Side Bus (FSB); 133MHz memory bus; AC97 audio; MC97
modem; UltraDMA/66 / UltraDMA/33; and four USB ports.
• South Bridge System Chipset: VIA VT82C686A PCIset with PCI Super I/O
integrated peripheral controller supports UltraDMA/66, which allows burst mode
data transfer rates of up to 66.6MB/sec.
• PC133 Memory / VCM / HSDRAM Support: Equipped with four Dual Inline
Memory Module (DIMM) sockets to support Intel PC133/PC100-compliant (8,
16, 32, 64, 128, 256, or 512MB), NEC’s Virtual Channel (VC) SDRAM, or En-
hanced Memory System’s High-speed DRAMs (HSDRAMs) up to 1.5GB. VC
SDRAM and HSDRAM are new DRAM core architectures that dramatically im-
proves the memory system’s ability to service, among others, high multimedia
requirements.
• JumperFree™ Mode: Allows processor settings and easy overclocking of fre-
quency and Vcore voltage all through BIOS setup when JumperFree™ mode is
enabled. Easy-to-use DIP switches instead of jumpers are included to allow
manual adjustment of the processor’s external frequency.
• Multi-Cache: Supports processors with 512, 256, 128, or 0KB Pipelined Burst
Level 2 cache.
• AGP Pro Slot: Supports AGP/AGP Pro cards for high performance, component
level interconnection targeted at 3D graphical applications supporting 133MHz
4X mode.
• UltraDMA/66 Support: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE control-
ler with two connectors that support four IDE devices on two channels. Sup-
ports UltraDMA/66, UltraDMA/33, PIO Modes 3 & 4 and 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.
2. FEATURES
Specifications
2. FEATURES