FEATURES .IISpecifications

II. FEATURES

Features of the ASUS P2Z-VM Motherboard

The ASUS P2Z-VM is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants advanced features processed by the fastest CPU.

Specifications:

•Multi-Speed:Supports Intel Pentium® III (450MHz and faster), Pentium® II (233MHz to 450MHz), and CeleronTM (266MHz and faster) processors.

•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.

•Multi-Cache:Supports processors with either 512, 128, or 0KB Pipelined Burst Level 2 cache.

•PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with two DIMM sockets to support Intel PC100-compliant SDRAMs (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) up to 512MB. These new SDRAMs are necessary to meet the critical enhanced 100MHz bus speed requirement.

•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 soft-off mode.

•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 Solo-1 32-bit PCI audio onboard.

•SB-Link™:Features Creative’s SB-Link™, allowing SB16 compatibility, us- ing Intel’s PC-PCI DMA and serialized IRQ protocols, to AWE64D or compat- ible PCI audio cards.

•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 32-bit PCI slots and one 16-bit ISA slot.

•Multi-I/O:Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one par- allel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART2 can also be directed from COM2 to the Infrared Module for wireless connections.

•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 CD-ROM, and LS-120 drives.

•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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ASUS P2Z-VM User’s Manual