Table 7. Main Board Components

Board

Component

 

Description

Location

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P1/P2

Hitachi* NDC

Node Controller:

 

 

One Front Side Bus

 

 

 

533/667 MHz FSB support

 

 

 

Two processors per bus

 

 

Four interfaces connecting to the memory

 

 

 

controller

 

 

Three x8 PCI Express* ports

 

 

Proprietary high-speed interface to link between

 

 

 

two node controllers

 

 

Optimized design for 667 MHz FSB to achieve

 

 

 

low memory access latency

 

 

Broadcast-based cache coherence control to

 

 

 

minimize snoop transaction

 

 

 

P3

Intel® ESB2

Enterprise South Bridge

P4

Intel® 6700PXH

64-bit PCI Hub:

 

 

PCI bridging functions between the PCI Express

 

 

 

interface and the PCI Bus

 

 

One PCI Express* interface (primary bus)

 

 

x8 and x4 modes operation

 

 

Maximum 2 GB/s in each direction

 

 

 

simultaneously

 

 

Two PCI / PCI-X* bus interfaces (secondary bus)

 

 

PCI 2.3-compliant

 

 

PCI-X 1.0b-compliant

 

 

 

P5

Intel® 82563

Physical Layer Transceiver (PHY) component

 

 

designed for 10/100/1000 Mbps operation:

 

 

IEEE 802.3 (10BASE-T), IEEE 802.3u

 

 

(100BASE-TX), IEEE 802.3ab (1000BASE-T)

 

 

Dual port

 

 

 

P6

Intel® 82551QM

Fast Ethernet PCI bus controller:

 

 

IEEE 802.3 (10BASE-T), IEEE 802.3u

 

 

 

(100BASE-TX), 32-bit PCI bus master interface

 

 

 

P7

ATI* ES1000

Graphics processing unit:

 

 

2D graphics accelerator

 

 

PCI bus interface (PCI 2.2 compliant, 33 MHz)

 

 

 

P8

VRAM

64 MB VRAM for ATI ES1000:

 

 

Max resolution: Up to 1280 x 1024, 85 Hz

 

 

Max color depth: Up to 32 bpp true color

 

 

 

 

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