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ATX 12V connector. This power connector connects the 4-pin 12V plug from the ATX 12V power supply.

CPU socket. A 478-pin surface mount, Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket for the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor (and Intel’s future Prescott CPU) support with 800/533/400 MHz system bus that allows up to 6.4GB/s data transfer rates.

North bridge controller. The Intel® 82865PE Memory Controller Hub (MCH) provides the processor interface with 800/533/400 MHz frequency, system memory interface at 400/333/266MHz operation, and 1.5V AGP interface that supports AGP 3.0 specification including 8X Fast Write protocol.

DDR DIMM sockets. These four 184-pin DIMM sockets support up to 4GB system memory using unbuffered non-ECC PC3200/2700/2100 DDR DIMMs.

ATX power connector. This 20-pin connector connects to an ATX +12V power supply. The power supply must have at least 1A on the +5V standby lead (+5VSB).

Super I/O controller. The Winbond 83627THF Low Pin Count (LPC) interface 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, two serial ports, a GAME port, the mouse and keyboard interface and the LPC (Low Pin Count) interface.

Floppy disk connector. This connector accommodates the provided ribbon cable for the floppy disk drive. One side of the connector is slotted to prevent incorrect insertion of the floppy disk cable.

IDE connectors. These dual-channel bus master IDE connectors support Ultra DMA100/66, PIO Modes 3 & 4 IDE devices. Both the primary (blue) and secondary (black) connectors are slotted to prevent incorrect insertion of the IDE ribbon cable.

AGP slot. This Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) slot supports 1.5V AGP8X mode graphics cards for 3D graphical applications.

Serial ATA connectors. These two 7-pin connectors accommodate the thin cables for Serial ATA devices.

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