Asus PR-DLS533 2.4.1 Overview, 3.Hold components by the edges to avoid touching the ICs on them, 1. Unplug the power cord from the wall socket before touching any component

2.3Before you proceed

Take note of the following precautions before you install motherboard components or change any motherboard settings.

1. Unplug the power cord from the wall socket before touching any component.

2.Use a grounded wrist strap or touch a safely grounded object or to a metal object, such as the power supply case, before handling components to avoid damaging them due to static electricity.

3.Hold components by the edges to avoid touching the ICs on them.

4.Whenever you uninstall any component, place it on a grounded antistatic pad or in the bag that came with the component.

5.Before you install or remove any component, ensure that the ATX power supply is switched off or the power cord is detached from the power supply. Failure to do so may cause severe damage to the motherboard, peripherals, and/or components.

2.4Central Processing Unit (CPU)

2.4.1 Overview

The motherboard comes with dual surface mount 603/604-pin Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) sockets. The sockets are designed for the Intel Processor in the 603/604-pin package with 512KB L2 cache. The processor includes the Intel® NetBurst™ micro-architecture that features the hyper-pipelined technology, rapid execution engine, 533/400MHz system bus, and execution trace cache. Together, these attributes improve system performance by allowing higher core frequencies, faster execution of integer instructions, and data transfer rate of up to 4.27GB/s or 3.2GB/s.

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