1.2Core Specifications

The A7V266-M 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™ / Athlon™ XP and Duron™ Socket A (462) Processor

North Bridge Chipset: the VIA® KT266A supports AGP 4X/2X mode, 133/100MHz Front Side Bus, and the fastest 266/200MHz memory bus.

South Bridge Chipset: the VIA® VT8233 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.

PC2100 / PC1600 DDR Support: Equipped with three Double Data Rate Dual Inline Memory Module (DDR DIMM) sockets to support up to 3GB of DDR DRAM, 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 2.1 GB/s for 133MHz DDR SDRAM 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 UltraDMA/100/66/33, 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 Vcore and CPU/DDR SDRAM frequency adjustments, boot block write protection, and HD/SCSI/MO/ZIP/CD/Floppy boot selection.

Expansion: One AGP 4X, four USB ports, two PCI slots, Infrared port

Connections: Parallel Port, PS/2 mouse Port, PS/2 keyboard, RJ-45, Microphone, Line In Jack, Line Out Jack, Game/MIDI Connector, Standard ATX power.

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