The SiS651 Northbridge chip is a high performance Host Memory Controller for the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor, and supports a 2D/3D graphic engine, memory controller, AGP 4X, and 533MHz front side bus. The SiS651 interconnects with the SiS962L Southbridge chip at speeds of up to 1GB/s using the proprietary SiS MuTIOL® technology.

Providing I/O and peripheral support is the SiS962L MuTIOL® Media I/O. The Southbridge is a subsystem that integrates various I/O functions including dual-channel DMA133 bus master IDE, USB 2.0/1.1, Ethernet, and audio controllers. The SiS962L provides the necessary interfaces for the LPC, AC’97 audio/modem devices, and complies with the Advanced Power Management (APM) 1.2 and ACPI 1.0b specification.

Integrated 2D/3D graphic engine

Embedded in the Northbridge is an integrated graphic engine with a 256-bit 3D and 2D graphics accelerator with maximum 64MB shared display memory.

See page 2-19.

Integrated 10/100 Mbps LAN controller

The SiS651 Northbridge provides an integrated Fast Ethernet solution that fully supports 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX networking. The integrated controller works with the onboard Realtek LAN PHY to give you faster Internet and LAN connections. See page 1-17.

SoundMAX digital audio system

The SoundMax Digital Audio System is the industry’s highest performance and most reliable audio solution for business professionals, audiophiles, musicians, and gamers. SoundMAX Digital Audio System can output 5.1 channel surround and features state-of-the-art DLS2 MIDI synthesizer with Yamaha DLSbyXG sound set, 5.1 Virtual Theater™ and supports all major game audio technologies including Microsoft DirectX™8.0, Microsoft DirectSound 3D™, A3D, MacroFX, ZoomFX, MultiDrive 5.1 and EAX. See page 1-17.

USB 2.0 connectivity

The motherboard rear panel is equipped with four (4) Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports to connect USB 2.0 devices. A USB header is also available at mid-board to accommodate a USB module for two (2) additional USB ports. The USB ports and header comply with USB 2.0 specification that supports up to 480 Mbps connection speed. This speed advantage over the conventional USB 1.1 (12 Mbps) allows faster Internet connection, interactive gaming, and simultaneous running of high-speed peripherals. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.1.

See pages 1-17 and 1-20.

ASUS P4SP-MX motherboard user guide

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