1.3Special features

Latest processor technology

The motherboard supports the latest Intel® Pentium® 4 processor via a

478-pin surface mount ZIF socket. The processor with 1MB/512KB L2 cache includes a 800/533 MHz system bus and features the Intel Hyper- Threading Technology and new power design that allow up to 3.4+GHz core frequencies.

Dual-channel DDR400 memory support

Employing the dual-channel DDR memory architecture, the motherboard provides a solution that doubles the system memory bandwidth to boost system performance. The motherboard supports up to 4GB of system memory using PC3200/2700/2100 ECC or non-ECC DDR DIMMs to deliver up to 6.4GB/s data transfer rate for the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications.

Serial ATA technology

The motherboard supports the new Serial ATA technology through the SATA interfaces and the Intel® 6300ESB ICH and Promise® PDC20319 controllers onboard. The SATA specification allows for thinner, more flexible cables with lower pin count, reduced voltage requirement, and up to 150MB/s data transfer rate.

Multi-RAID solution

The motherboard has the Promise® PDC20319 controller to support multi- RAID solution using Serial ATA/150 hard disks. The RAID0 (striping), RAID1 (mirroring), and RAID 0+1 provide a cost-effective high- performance solution for added system performance and reliability.

Gigabit LAN solution

The Intel® 82547GI Gigabit Ethernet controller allows full-duplex Gigabit performance on LAN on Motherboard (LOM) applications through the Communication Streaming Architecture (CSA). Instead of connecting to the PCI bus, the controller connects to the dedicated CSA bus on the Memory Controller Hub (MCH) thus reducing the PCI bottlenecks by freeing the PCI bus for other I/O operations.

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