II. FEATURES
Features of the ASUS P2Z-VM Motherboard
The ASUS
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•Intel AGPset: Features Intel’s 440ZX AGPset with I/O subsystems and front- side bus (FSB) platform, which boosts the traditional 66MHz external bus speed to 100MHz.
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•PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with two DIMM sockets to support Intel
•AGP 3D VGA (optional): Features onboard ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X (8MB SDRAM) or Rage IIC AGP (4MB SDRAM) for 3D hardware acceleration.
•Peripheral Wake Up: Supports modem wake up, keyboard wake up, and LAN card wake up functions from sleep or
•AGP Slot (optional): Supports an Accelerated Graphics Port card for high per- formance, component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display appli- cations using a 1X or 2X mode bus. This slot is available as an option with Rage IIC only.
•PCI Audio (optional): Features ESS•
•SMBus: Features the System Management Bus interface, which is used to physi- cally transport commands and information between SMBus devices.
•PCI & ISA Expansion Slots: Provides three
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•Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that support four IDE devices in two channels, supports UltraDMA/33, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2, and supports Enhanced IDE devices, such as Tape Backup and
•Universal Retention Mechanism: Supports a Pentium® III / Pentium® II pro- cessor packaged in a Single Edge Contact Cartridge (SECC2/SECC) or a CeleronTM processor packaged in a Single Edge Processor Package (SEPP).
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