Employing the Double Data Rate (DDR) memory technology, the motherboard supports up to 2 GB of system memory using DDR400/333 DIMMs. The
The motherboard fully supports PCI Express, the latest I/O interconnect technology that speeds up the PCI bus. PCI Express features
The AGP 8X (AGP 3.0) VGA interface specification enables enhanced graphics performance with high bandwidth speeds up to 2.12 GB/s. See page
The motherboard supports the Serial ATA technology through the Serial ATA interfaces and the VIA VT8251 Southbridge. The Serial ATA II specification provides twice the bandwidth of the current Serial ATA products with a host of new features, including Native Command Queueing (NCQ), Power Management (PM) Implementation Algorithm, and Hot Swap. Serial ATA allows for thinner, more flexible cables with lower pin count, reduced voltage requirement, and data transfer rates of up to 150 MB/s for SATA I and 300 MB/s for SATA II. See page
The motherboard supports the S/PDIF Out function through the S/PDIF interfaces on the rear panel and at midboard. The S/PDIF technology turns your computer into a
The motherboard implements the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 specification, dramatically increasing the connection speed from the
12Mbps bandwidth on USB 1.1 to a fast 480 Mbps on USB 2.0. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.1. See pages
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