SUPER MICRO Computer P8SC8, P8SCI Motherboard Features, Expansion Slots, PC Health Monitoring

Chapter 1: Introduction

Motherboard Features

CPU Latest CPU technology!

•Single Intel Pentium® 4 Processor in the 775-Land Grid Array Package at a system bus speed of 800 MHz.

Memory Latest memory technology!

•Dual/Single Channel DDR2 533/400 (using x8 DRAMTechnologies) up to 4 GB of ECC/Non ECC, unbuffered two-way interleaved DDR2-533/400 SDRAM in 4 DIMMS Note: See Section 2-4 for details.

Chipset Latest Intel chipset technology!

•Intel E7221 (Copper River)

Expansion Slots

•Two (2) PCI-Express x1

•One (1) PCI-X up to 133MHz (*P8SCi), PCI-X 100MHz (*P8SC8)

•One (1) 32-bit PCI

BIOS

•8 Mb Firmware Hub AwardBIOS® Flash BIOS

•APM 1.2, DMI 2.3, PCI 2.2, ACPI 1.0, Plug and Play (PnP)

PC Health Monitoring

•Eight onboard voltage monitors for CPU core, +3.3V, +5V,+5VStandby, +1.5V, VBATT, and ±12V

•Fan status monitor with firmware/software speed control

•SuperDoctor III, Watch Dog, NMI

•Environmental temperature monitoring via BIOS

•Power-up mode control for recovery from AC power loss

•System resource alert via Supero Doctor III

•Hardware BIOS virus protection

•Auto-switching voltage regulator for the CPU core

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