Acer G300 Series manual Overview, Processor

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Overview

The Acer Altos G301 is a PCI bus based single processor system board built on an extended ATX baseboard. It comes with a single mPGA478 processor socket utilizing an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor integrated with the ServerWorks GC-SL chipset. The system board also integrates the Intel® 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet controller that supports WOL (Wake on LAN) for better remote site management.

For expandability, the system board using ATI Rage XL integrated with 8MB memory, one 32bit/33MHz 3.3V PCI bus slot, four 64bit/33MHz 3.3V PCI bus slots and four DIMM sockets that allow memory installation to a maximum of 4GB using four 1GB Registered DDR SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) with ECC DIMMs.

For connectivity, the system board supports two USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectors, one UART NS16C550 serial ports, one enhanced parallel port with Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP)/Extended Capabilities Port (ECP) support, two PS/2 port, a diskette drive interface, three embedded hard disk interfaces, one RJ-45 network port and a 9-pin connector for video output.

The system is fully compatible with MS-DOS V6.X, Novell Netware 6.0, RedHat Linux 7.3/8.0, Windows NT 4.0 server, and Windows 2000 server.

Processor

The Pentium® 4 processor implements Intel® NetBurstTM micro architecture, Hyper-Pipelined Technology, Advanced Dynamic Execution, Enhanced Floating-Point and Multimedia Unit, Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2) Instructions. Based on Intel® NetBurstTM micro architecture, the Pentium 4 processor offers higher-performance processing than ever before. Built with Intel's 0.13-micron technology, the Pentium 4 processor delivers significant performance gains for use in home computing, business solutions and all your processing needs.

This system board supports 400/533MHz system bus frequencies for one Pentium 4 processor supporting frequencies start at 1.8GHz.