1.3Special features

1.3.1 Product highlights

Latest processor technology

The P4B533-E motherboard supports the latest Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor via a 478-pin surface mount ZIF socket. The Pentium 4 processor with 512KB L2 cache on 0.13 micron process features the Intel® NetBurst™ microarchitecture that includes hyper-pipelined technology, a rapid execution engine, a 533MHz system bus, and an execution trace cache to offer a significant increase in performance. See page 2-4 for more information.

DDR memory support

Employing the Double Data Rate (DDR) memory technology, the P4B533-E motherboard supports up to 2GB of system memory using PC2100/1600 DDR DIMMs. The ultra-fast 266MHz memory bus doubles the speed of the PC133 SDRAM to deliver the required bandwidth for the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. See page 2-10.

USB 2.0 technology

The motherboard implements the new Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 specification, extending the connection speed from 12 Mbps on USB 1.1 to a fast 480 Mbps on USB 2.0. The higher bandwidth of USB 2.0 allows connection of devices such as high resolution video conferencing cameras, next generation scanners and printers, and fast storage units. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.1. See page 2-31.

Digital audio interface (on audio models only)

A digital audio connector is onboard to accommodate the bundled Sony/ Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF) In/Out module, which supports coaxial interfaces. Experience 5.1-channel surround sound and enhanced 3D audio while playing DVDs and computer games. See page 2-34.

RAID 0/RAID 1 support (on RAID models only)

The motherboard includes the Promise® chip PDC20276 and two ATA133 interfaces to support Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) configuration. This feature supports Ultra ATA/133 drives, and is backward compatible with Ultra ATA/100/66/33 drives. The RAID controller onboard supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations. See pages 2-27 and 5-26.

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Chapter 1: Product introduction