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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1: Introducing the Motherboard
This motherboard supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 133/
100/66/33 Mb/s.
• One PCI Express x16 slot for Graphics Interface
• Three PCI Express x1 slots
• Two 32-bit PCI v2.3 compliant slots
• One IDE connector supporting up to two IDE devices
• Six 7-pin SATA connectors
Expansion Options
Integrated I/O
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One Serial port
• Four USB ports
• One LAN port
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6-ch line-out
BIOS Firmware
• Power management
• Wake-up alarms
• CPU parameters
• CPU and memory timing
1. Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice.
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
The motherboard uses AMI BIOS that enables users to configure many system
features including the following:
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different processor clock
speeds.
2. Due to chipset limitation, we recommend that motherboard be oper-
ated in the ambiance between 0 and 50 °C.
Onboard LAN (
• Integrated PHY for 10/100/1000 Mbps
• IEEE 802.3x compliant flow control support
• Three power supplies: 2.5V, 1.8V and 1.2V
• PCI Express base 1.1 compliant
Atheros AR8121 PCI-E Gbit LAN)