Specifications

2. FEATURES

 

 

2.FEATURES

2.1The ASUS TUWE-M

The ASUS TUWE-M motherboard is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants advanced features processed by the fastest processors.

2.1.1 Core Specifications
•Latest Intel Processor Support
P III® Tualatin™100/133MHz FSB FC-PGA2
P III® Coppermine™100/133MHz FSB FC-PGA
Celeron™100/66MHz FSB FC-PGA
•North Bridge System Chipset: The Intel® 810E2 chipset supports the
latest Intel® Tualatin™

processor and offers full backward compatibility

to PIII® Coppermine™and Celeron™ CPUs. The chipset supports

industry standard 66/100/133 Front Side Busses (FSBs), and up to 512MB of PC100 SDRAM, and a 3D/2D hardware accelerator.

•South Bridge System Chipset: The Intel I/O Controller Hub 2 (ICH2) features support for UltraDMA/100, which allows burst mode data ASUS IrDA-compliant infrared module transfer rates of up to 100MB/sec; two USB controllers for a total of 4 USB ports.

•Intel® Accelerated Hub Architecture: Features a dedicated high speed hub link between the ICH2 and GMCH with a bandwidth of 266MB/sec

– twice the maximum bandwidth of the PCI bus.

•PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with two Dual Inline Memory Mod- ule (DIMM) sockets to support PC100-compliant non-ECC SDRAMs (available in 64, 128, 256 densities) up to 512MB.

•High-Speed Data Transfer Interface: UltraDMA/100 increases the data transfer rate to 100MB/s. UltraATA/100 is backward compatible with both DMA/66 and DMA/33 with existing DMA devices and systems. (UltraDMA100/66 requires a 40-pin80-conductor cable to be enabled.)

•Super Multi-I/O:Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART2 can also be directed from COM2 to the Infrared Module for wireless connections.

•Onboard LAN: Provides Intel’s 82562ET chipset, an integrated Platform LAN Connect (PLC) device with 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX capabilities. Network connectivity is integrated through the Intel I/O Controller Hub 2 (ICH2), which offers enhanced bus mastering for high-speed data transfers. The bus mastering facility permits high-level command processing.

•Smart BIOS: 2Mb firmware provides Vcore and CPU/SDRAM frequency adjustments, boot block write protection, and HD/SCSI/MO/ ZIP/CD/Floppy boot.

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ASUS TUWE-M User’s Manual