13Super I/O controller. The Winbond W83697HF provides the commonly used Super I/O functionality. The chipset supports a high- performance floppy disk controller for a 360K/720K/1.44M/2.88M floppy disk drive, a multi-mode parallel port, 2 serial ports, the mouse and keyboard interface and the LPC (Low Pin Count) interface.

14SouthBridge controller. The VIA® VT8237 integrated peripheral controller supports various I/O functions including two Serial ATA ports, RAID functionality, 2-channel ATA/133 bus master IDE controller, up to eight USB 2.0 ports, LPC Super I/O interface, AC’97 interface and PCI 2.2 interface.

15RAID controller. The Promise® R20378 RAID controller provides high-performance RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 functionality and complies with the Serial ATA and UltraDMA 133 specifications.

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COM2 connector. This 9-pin COM2 connector is for a COM2 cable for an additional serial port.

WiFi slot. The WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) slot connects a Wi-Fi wireless networking module that allows 11Mbps transmission (with a fallback to 5.5, 2 and 1 Mbps) in the 2.4 GHz band. Wi-Fi networks use radio technologies known as IEEE 802.11b to provide a fast reliable wireless connectivity.

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Speech controller. The Winbond 83791SD facilitates the POST speech functionality.

PCI slots. These five 32-bit PCI 2.3 expansion slots support bus master PCI cards like SCSI or LAN cards with 133MB/s maximum throughput.

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Audio CODEC. The ADI 1980 is an AC’97 compliant audio CODEC for PC multimedia systems.

Gigabit LAN controller. The 3Com® Gigabit LAN delivers transfer rates up to ten times faster than conventional 10/100 Ethernet connections. Ideal for handling large amounts of data such as video, audio and voice.

22IEEE 1394 controller. The VIA® VT6307 is a single-chip, low power 2-port IEEE 1394 host controller providing high speed, flexible connectivity to a wide range of peripherals and consumer electronics.

23PS/2 mouse port. This green 6-pin connector is for a PS/2 mouse.

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