Asus P2Z-VM Computer Hardware User Manual


 
8 ASUS P2Z-VM User’s Manual
Features of the ASUS P2Z-VM Motherboard
The ASUS P2Z-VM is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants
advanced features processed by the fastest CPU.
Specifications:
Multi-Speed: Supports Intel Pentium
®
III (450MHz and faster), Pentium
®
II
(233MHz to 450MHz), and Celeron
TM
(266MHz and faster) processors.
Intel AGPset: Features Intel’s 440ZX AGPset with I/O subsystems and front-
side bus (FSB) platform, which boosts the traditional 66MHz external bus speed
to 100MHz.
Multi-Cache: Supports processors with either 512, 128, or 0KB Pipelined Burst
Level 2 cache.
PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with two DIMM sockets to support Intel
PC100-compliant SDRAMs (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) up to 512MB. These
new SDRAMs are necessary to meet the critical enhanced 100MHz bus speed
requirement.
AGP 3D VGA (optional): Features onboard ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X (8MB
SDRAM) or Rage IIC AGP (4MB SDRAM) for 3D hardware acceleration.
Peripheral Wake Up: Supports modem wake up, keyboard wake up, and LAN
card wake up functions from sleep or soft-off mode.
AGP Slot (optional): Supports an Accelerated Graphics Port card for high per-
formance, component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display appli-
cations using a 1X or 2X mode bus. This slot is available as an option with Rage
IIC only.
PCI Audio (optional): Features ESS Solo-1 32-bit PCI audio onboard.
SB-Link™: Features Creative’s SB-Link™, allowing SB16 compatibility, us-
ing Intel’s PC-PCI DMA and serialized IRQ protocols, to AWE64D or compat-
ible PCI audio cards.
SMBus: Features the System Management Bus interface, which is used to physi-
cally transport commands and information between SMBus devices.
PCI & ISA Expansion Slots: Provides three 32-bit PCI slots and one 16-bit
ISA slot.
Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one par-
allel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART2 can also be directed from
COM2 to the Infrared Module for wireless connections.
Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE
controller with two connectors that support four IDE devices in two channels,
supports UltraDMA/33, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2,
and supports Enhanced IDE devices, such as Tape Backup and CD-ROM, and
LS-120 drives.
Universal Retention Mechanism: Supports a Pentium
®
III / Pentium
®
II pro-
cessor packaged in a Single Edge Contact Cartridge (SECC2/SECC) or a
Celeron
TM
processor packaged in a Single Edge Processor Package (SEPP).
II. FEATURES
Specifications
II. FEATURES