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!

*FSB533 support tested by ASUS.

The Intel® Hyper-threading Technology is not supported by this motherboard.

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