1.7.2 Screw holes

Place nine (9) screws into the holes indicated by circles to secure the motherboard to the chassis.

Do not overtighten the screws! Doing so may damage the motherboard.

Place this side towards the rear of the chassis

1.8Central Processing Unit (CPU)

1.8.1 Overview

The motherboard comes with a surface mount 478-pin Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket. The socket is designed for the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor in the 478-pin package with 512/256KB L2 cache on 0.13 micron process. This processor supports 533/400MHz front side bus (FSB), and allows data transfer rates of 4.2GB/s and 3.2GB/s.

Note in the illustration that the CPU has a

 

Gold Mark

 

gold triangular mark on one corner. This

 

 

mark indicates the processor Pin 1 that

 

 

should match a specific corner of the

 

 

CPU socket.

 

 

Incorrect installation of the CPU into the socket may bend the pins and severely damage the CPU!

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