Performance

2.FEATURES

 

 

2.FEATURES

2.1.2Special Features

•ACPI Ready: Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) provides more Energy Saving Features for operating systems that support OS Direct Power Management (OSPM) functionality. With these features implemented in the OS, PCs can be ready around the clock, yet satisfy all the energy saving standards. An ACPI-supported OS like Windows 98 must be used for ACPI.

•Easy Installation: Incorporates BIOS that supports autodetection of hard disk drives, PS/2 mouse, and Plug and Play devices to make the setup of hard disk drives, expansion cards, and other devices virtually automatic.

•New Compliancy: Both the BIOS and hardware levels of this motherboard meet the stringent requirements for PC 99 certification The new PC 99 requirements for systems and components are based on the following high-level goals: Sup- port for Plug and Play compatibility and power management for configuring and managing all system components, and 32-bit device drivers and installation procedures for Windows95/98/NT . Color-coded connectors and descriptive icons make identification easy as required by PC 99.

•Symbios SCSI BIOS: Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards through the onboard SYMBIOS firmware.

2.1.3 Optional Components

•Onboard PCI Audio Controller: A single chip by Creative® Audio supports advanced Audio performance.

•Realtek® RTL8139C Ethernet: A single chip fast ethernet controller for 100/ 10 Mbps capacity that supports WOL (Wake-On-LAN) feature.

2.1.4 Performance Features

•Concurrent PCI: Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI mas- ter busses to the memory and processor.

•High-Speed Data Transfer Interface: IDE transfers using UltraDMA/33 Bus Master IDE can handle rates up to 33MB/s. This chipset supports UltraDMA/ 100, tripling the data transfer rate to 100MB/s. UltraDMA/100 is backward compatible with DMA/66/33 and with existing DMA devices and systems, so there is no need to upgrade current EIDE/IDE drives and host systems. (UltraDMA/100 requires a 40-pin80-conductor.)

•VCM/SDRAM Optimized Performance: This motherboard supports a new gen- eration memory, NEC® ’s 64Mb Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) Synchronous Dy- namic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), which is compatible to the industry standard SDRAM. The VCM’s core design provides up to 50% higher SDRAM speed at reduced power consumption of about 30%. This motherboard also supports standard SDRAM, which increases the data transfer rate (1.064GB/s max using PC133-compliant SDRAMs and 800MB/s max using PC100-compliant SDRAMs).

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