Specifications

2.FEATURES

 

 

2.FEATURES

2.1The ASUS P3B-1394 Motherboard

The ASUS P3B-1394 is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants advanced features processed by the fastest CPU.

2.1.1 Specifications

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

•1394-1995 and 1394.A Ready: Integrated TI® 400Mbps capable link-layer con- troller and 400Mbps physical layer controller provide a fast, scalable, easy-to- use digital interface for throughput intensive consumer electronics devices such as, DV camcorders, digital cameras, scanners, and printers. IEEE-1394 supports traditional asynchronous data transfer as well as isochronous (real-time) data transfer.

•Intel AGPset: Features Intel’s 440BX 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 512, 256, 128, or 0KB Pipelined Burst Level 2 cache.

•Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Features a programmable BIOS, offering enhanced Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) support for Windows 98 com- patibility, built-in firmware-based virus protection through Trend ChipAway Virus codes, and autodetection of most devices for virtually automatic setup.

•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.

•PCI Audio with AC’97 Codec (optional): Features Aureal’s Vortex 2 posi- tional 3D audio chip with A3D 2.0 hardware support. A3D 2.0 provides many advanced 3D audio features, including Aureal WavetracingTM, which traces sound waves in real-time to simulate the acoustic characteristics of the environment for true 3D audio.

•Peripheral Wake Up: Supports modem wake up and LAN card wake up func- tions from sleep or soft-off mode.

•PC Health Monitoring: Provides an easier way to examine and manage system status information, such as CPU and system voltages, temperatures, and fan status through the onboard hardware ASIC and the bundled LDCM by Intel or PC Probe from ASUS.

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ASUS P3B-1394 User’s Manual