Asus A7V266-E/AA - Manual (Page 8)

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2.1 ASUS A7V266-E Motherboard
The ASUS A7V266-E motherboard is the perfect answer for home PCs, workstations
and servers. The A7V266-E is powered by the AMD
® Athlon ™ /Duron ™ processor
and is bundled with advanced features to provide superlative performance.
2.1.1 Specifications
• AMD ® Athlon ™ / Athlon XP ™ and Duron ™ Processor Support
• North Bridge System Chipset: Features the VIA ® KT266A North Bridge that
supports AGP 4X/2X mode, 133/100MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), and
266/200MHz memory bus.
• South Bridge System Chipset: VIA ® VT8233 integrated peripheral controller
supports UltraDMA/100/66/33 for burst mode data transfer rates of up to 100MB/
sec, and USB controller with three root hubs for six USB ports.
• PC2100 / PC1600 DDR Support: Equipped with three Double Data Rate Dual
Inline Memory Module (DDR DIMM) sockets to support up to 3GB of DDR
DRAM. DDR DRAM is the newest memory standard with the highest bandwidth
and lowest latency currently available and dramatically improves the memory
system’s ability to service, among others, high multimedia requirements. (Caution:
Do not attempt to use SDRAM modules.)
• JumperFree™ Mode: Allows processor settings and easy overclocking of
frequency and Vcore voltage through BIOS. Easy-to-use DIP switches come
with the motherboard board to allow manual adjustment of the processor external/
internal frequency.
• 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, 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.
• Super Multi-I/O: The multi-I/O chipset offers complete support for a variety of
I/O functions. Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one
parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART2 can also be directed from
COM2 to the Infrared Module for wireless connections. The Super I/O controller
also supports a floppy disk drive, PS/2 keyboard, and PS/2 mouse.
• Promise ® chip: The Promise IDE controller chip supports the ATA-100 protocol
and Ultra DMA/100 data transfer speeds. The chip also delivers reliable
redundancy and stable performance for RAID levels 0 or 1. Data “striping,” or
RAID 0, improves speed performance as I/O tasks are spread between two hard
disk drives. Data “mirroring,” or RAID 1, improves system fault tolerance as
the protocol optimizes two identical hard disks to write data to each other.
2. FEATURES
Specifications
2. FEA
TURES