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Chapter 1
Introduction
Overview
The S1857 Trinity 371 is a quality, high performance motherboard designed for
Socket 370 Intel Celeron and Slot 1 Intel PII/ PIII microprocessors. The Trinity
371 utilizes the Intel 440BX AGPset with AMI BIOS (S1857-B & S1857A-B) or
a VIA VT82C693A with Award BIOS for S1857 & S1857-A models. S1857 can
support Celeron/ PII/ PIII CPU speeds of 300MHz through 600MHz, and host
bus speeds of 66MHz to 133MHz.
( The VIA chipset versions bus speed is Auto-Determined by the CPU. The
BX version can support 133Mhz by overclocking the chipset but it is not
recommended by Intel
TM
and Tyan.)
The S1857 motherboard, with built-in AGP slot, provides high performance
capabilities that are ideal for a wide range of demanding applications such as
CAD, CAM, CAE, desktop publishing, 3D animation, and video production.
This system board in an ATX form factor offers far more features and
expandability than Micro ATX models. Some of the features included are
onboard dual channel PCI PIO, Bus Master IDE and UltraDMA/66, onboard
floppy controller, and onboard high speed I/O.
Flexibility and expandability have been designed into the Trinity 371. With I/O
and drive controller support built onboard, the one AGP slot, six PCI and one
chapter 1
Introduction