1.2Core Specifications

The A7S333 motherboard is designed and assembled according to the highest standards. This ASUS motherboard represents the latest advances and offers users the finest componentry available today...

AMD® Athlon™ XP, Athlon™ and Duron Socket A (462) Processor

SiS® 745 Chipset: supports AGP 4X/2X mode, 133/100MHz Front Side Bus, and the fastest 333/266/200MHz memory bus. The SiS® 745 integrated peripheral controller supports UltraDMA/100/66/33 for burst mode data transfer rates of up to 100MB/sec, and USB controller with three root hubs for six USB ports.

PC 2700 / 2100 / PC1600 DDR Support: Equipped with three Double Data Rate Dual Inline Memory Module (DDR DIMM) sockets to support up to 3GB of DDR SDRAM, the newest memory standard with the highest bandwidth and lowest latency currently available. This new memory technology increases performance by executing two actions per clock cycle, resulting in data transfer rates of up to 2.7 GB/s for 166MHz DDR, 2.1 GB/s for 133MHz DDR and 1.6GB/s for 100MHz DDR SDRAM.

UltraDMA/100 Support: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that support four IDE devices on two channels. Supports UltraDMA100/66/33, PIO Modes 3 & 4, Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2, and Enhanced IDE devices, such as DVD-ROM, CD- ROM, CD-R/RW, LS-120, and Tape Backup drives.

Multi-I/O Chipset: Offers complete support for a variety of I/O functions. 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. The Super I/O controller supports a floppy disk drive, PS/2 keyboard, and PS/2 mouse.

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

Expansion: One AGP 4X, six USB ports, five PCI slots, AMR slot (Optional), SPDIF digital audio connector, 1394 header (Optional), game connector, iPanel connector, front audio panel connector, smart card connector, infrared port.

Connections: Parallel Port, PS/2 mouse Port, PS/2 keyboard, 6 USB ports, Microphone, Line In Jack, Line Out Jack, Standard ATX power.

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