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8 ASUS P3W User’s Manual
2. FEATURES
Specifications
2. FEATURES
2.1 The ASUS P3W Motherboard
The P3W motherboard from ASUS is carefully designed for the demanding PC user
who wants many smart features in a small package. So what’s so smart about the
ASUS P3W motherboard?
2.1.1 Specifications
• Latest Intel Processor Support! Supports Intel Pentium
®
III (450MHz and
faster), Pentium
®
II (233MHz to 450MHz), and Celeron™ (266MHz and faster)
processors.
• Latest Intel 810 Chipset! Features 100/66MHz FSB Intel 810 chipset with the
Accelerated Hub Architecture, which provides direct connections between the
810 chipset and subsystems such as IDE controllers, USB controllers, and PCI
add-in cards.
• Multi-Cache! Supports processors with 512, 256, 128, or 0KB Pipelined Burst
Level 2 Cache.
• Integrated Graphics! Controller supports 3D hyper pipelined architecture, par-
allel data processing and compression, precise pixel interpolation, full 2D hard-
ware acceleration, and motion video acceleration.
• ASUS Graphics Driver! You can gain about 12% performance over that of the
standard graphics driver (2D high-end graphics WinMark) using ASUS’ custom
graphics driver. ASUS custom graphics driver also provides more features and
provides selection of higher refresh rates and resolutions.
• Versatile Memory Support! DRAM controller supports asymmetrical address-
ing and three DIMM sockets support Intel PC100-compliant SDRAMs (16, 32,
64, 128, or 256MB) up to 512MB. (supports a maximum of 4 sides)
• 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 incase you
want to manually adjust the processor’s external frequency.
• Smart Slots! Six 32-bit PCI (rev 2.2) slots and one 16-bit ISA expansion slot for
greater expansion flexibility. PCI supports up to 133MB/s maximum through-
put. Each PCI slot can support a Bus Master PCI card (such as SCSI or LAN
cards).
• Latest Low Pin Count Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART compatible
serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities.
• Integrated IDE! Controller supports UltraDMA/66 up to 66MB/s, UltraDMA/
33 up to 33MB/s, and PIO Mode 4 up to 17MB/s.
• Peripheral Wake-Up! Supports Wake-On-LAN, Wake-On-Ring, Keyboard
Wake-Up, and BIOS Wake-Up.