Specifications

2.FEATURES

 

 

2.FEATURES

2.1ASUS A7N266 Motherboard

The ASUS A7N266 motherboard is a high-performance motherboard powered by AMD® Athlon™ /Duron™ processors. It sports the new nVidia® Force 420™ chipset and features GeForce2™ MX GPU performance. The board offers users several advanced features to provide superlative performance. The A7N266 meets today’s demand for a superior quality, fully integrated system.

2.1.1 Core Specifications

• AMD® Athlon XP™ / Athlon™ / Duron™ Processor support: Features the latest AMDs, 500MHz to 1.6 GHz and higher.

•North Bridge System Chipset: Features the brand new nVidia® nForce™ IGP- 128 integrated GPU/North Bridge controller chipset. The controller supports a 64/128bit DDR memory controller integrated with a GeForce2 MX-class advanced Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) with a high performance dual pixel processing pipeline, a 256-bit 3D/2D graphics accelerator that supplies per pixel shading rasterization and a full AGP 4X interface, a digital video interface to DVI TV transmitters /TV encoders and an interface for up to 1.5 GB of 266/200MHz DDR SDRAM memory. The 128bit memory controller provides a phenomenal 4.2 GB/second system memory bandwidth.

•South Bridge System Chipset: Features the brand new nVidia® nForce™ MCP integrated peripheral South Bridge controller operates at 800MB/sec to communicate with the North Bridge for maximum bandwith required for PCI, USB, AC’97 Audio/Modem and Fast Ethernet devices. The controller supports standard UltraDMA/100/66/33 for burst mode data transfer rates of up to 100MB/ sec. Separate data paths for each IDE channel are built-in to support up to four IDE devices. The controller supports six USB ports and 5 PCI slots and is PCI rev 2.2 compliant. The MCH supplies an LPC 1.0 interface along with AT legacy functions, a clock synthesizer, and meets ACPI 1.0 and PCI Power Management 1.1 specifications.

•PC2100 / PC1600 DDR Support: Equipped with three Double Data Rate Dual Inline Memory Module (DDR DIMM) sockets to support up to 1.5GB of DDR DRAM. DDR DRAM supplies the highest bandwidth (64/128 bit) and offers the lowest latency currently available, improving the memory system’s ability to service multimedia requirements.

•Easy Frequency Changes: Now, easily overclock all important frequency settings - simply and quickly through onboard BIOS firmware.

•Smart BIOS: 2Mb firmware enables Vcore and CPU/DDR SDRAM frequency adjustments, boot block write protection, and enhanced ACPI, DMI, Green, PnP Features Plus.

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ASUS A7N266 User’s Manual