1.2Core Specifications

The P4T533-C motherboard is designed and assembled according to the highest standards. This ASUS motherboard represents the latest advances and supplies users the finest components available today...

Latest P4 Processor Technology: Intel® Pentium® 4 Socket 478 Northwood Processor. The Pentium 4 processor with 512KB L2 cache on a 0.13 micron processor core implements a 533MHz, quad-pumping system bus with a 133MHz system clock; the result: 4.2 GB/s data transfer rates are achieved. The P4 offers optimized performance for top-end software, audio, video and Internet applications. (See page 12 and 24.)

North Bridge Chipset: the Intel® 850E (82850E Memory Controller Hub, I/O Controller and Firmware Hub) with support for AGP 4X Mode, (1.5 volt only); 533/400MHz Front Side Bus (FSB); and dual channel RDRAM.

Intel ICH2: The Intel I/O Controller Hub 2 (82801 ICH2) features support for UltraDMA/100, which allows burst mode data transfer rates of up to 100MB/sec; and two USB controllers for a total of 4 USB ports.

Intel® Accelerated Hub Architecture: Features a dedicated high speed hub link between the ICH2 and MCH with a bandwidth of 266MB/sec – twice the maximum bandwidth of the PCI bus.

PC1066/800 Memory Support: Equipped with four Rambus Inline Memory Module (RIMM) 184-pin sockets to support Intel PC1066/PC800-compliant Rambus DRAMs (RDRAMs) (available in 64, 96, 128, 192, 256, 512MB) up to 2GB. These RDRAMs are necessary to meet the increase in processor performance and multimedia and 3D functions. (See page 18.)

UltraDMA/100 Support: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that support four IDE devices on two channels. Supports UltraDMA/100, UltraDMA/66, UltraDMA/33, PIO Modes 3 & 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2, and Enhanced IDE devices, such as DVD-ROM, CD-ROM, CD-R/RW, LS-120, and Tape Backup drives.

Smart BIOS: 2Mb firmware enables Vcore adjustments, boot block write protection, and HD/SCSI/MO/ZIP/CD/Floppy boot selection.

Concurrent PCI: Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI master busses to the memory and processor.

Onboard LAN: The motherboard incorporates the Intel® 82562ET PHY chip to support 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet networking.

Expansion: One AGP 4X, four USB ports, two USB headers, two COM ports, five PCI slots, S/PDIF Digital Audio, iPanel, Front Audio Panel, SMB, Smart Card (Optional), Game, CIR Infrared, Parallel, PS/2 Mouse, PS/2 Keyboard, RJ45 (Optional), Microphone, Line-In / Line-Out jacks, Standard ATX, AUX and 12V power.

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