Specifications

2.FEATURES

 

 

2.FEATURES

2.1ASUS A7V266 Motherboard

The ASUS A7V266 motherboard is targeted diversely for home PCs, workstations and servers. Powered by AMD® Athlon™ /Duron™ processor and bundled with advanced features to provide superlative performance, the A7V266 efficiently complies with today’s demand for a flexible high-integration system.

2.1.1 Specifications

•AMD® Athlon™ /Duron™ Processor Support: Supports Socket A-based AMD Athlon™ /Duron™ processors.

•North Bridge System Chipset: Features the VIA® VT8366 North Bridge that supports AGP 4X/2X mode, 133/100MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), and 266/200MHz memory bus.

•South Bridge System Chipset: 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. DDR DRAM is the newest memory standard with the highest bandwidth and lowest latency currently available and dramatically improves the memory system’s ability to service, among others, high multimedia requirements. (Caution: Do not attempt to use SDRAM modules.)

• JumperFree™ Mode: Allows processor settings and easy overclocking of frequency and Vcore voltage through BIOS. Easy-to-use DIP switches come with the motherboard board to allow manual adjustment of the processor external/ internal frequency.

•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, UltraDMA/66, UltraDMA/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.

•AGP Pro Slot: Comes with an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Pro slot that supports high performance AGP cards targeted at 3D graphical applications supporting 133MHz 4X mode. The slot is backward compatible with AGP 4X/ 2X cards.

•PC Health Monitoring: Provides an easy way to test and manage system status information, such as CPU and system voltages, temperatures, and fan status through the onboard hardware ASUS ASIC and the bundled ASUS PC Probe.

•SMBus: Features the System Management Bus interface used to physically transport commands and information between SMBus devices.

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ASUS A7V266 User’s Manual