Asus P4S800-MX - Manual (Page 11)

ASUS P4S800-MX motherboard user guide 1-3
The SiS661FX chipset provides a high performance host interface for the Intel ®
Pentium ® 4 processor, and supports AGP 8X, 800MHz front side bus, and
DDR400. The SiS661FX features the SiS HyperStreaming™ Engine that smartly
manages data streams between peripherals, core logic chipsets, front side bus,
memory and graphic interfaces. This technology dramatically optimizes and
improves the entire computer system performance.
Providing I/O and peripheral support is the SiS963L southbridge. The southbridge
is a subsystem that integrates various I/O functions including dual-channel ATA133
bus master IDE, USB 2.0/1.1, Ethernet, and audio controllers. The SiS963L
provides LPC and AC’97 interfaces, and complies with the Advanced Power
Management (APM) 1.2 specification. The SiS963L interconnects with the
northbridge at up to 1GB/s using the SiS proprietary MuTIOL
® bus interface.
DDR400 support
The motherboard supports up to 2GB of system memory using PC3200/2700/2100
non-ECC DDR DIMMs to deliver up to 3.2GB/s data transfer rate for the latest 3D
graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. See page 1-10.
Real256E integrated graphics
Embedded in the northbridge is the SiS Real256E integrated graphics with a
256-bit 3D engine and 2D graphics accelerator with a maximum 64MB shared
display memory. The Real256E integrated graphics engine incorporates the
UltraAGPII™ technology to provide a faster link between the built-in graphic engine
and the northbridge memory controller. This technology boosts VGA throughput to
up to 3.2GB/s to bring clearer and sharper images for your multimedia and
graphic-intensive applications. The Real256E integrated graphics achieves a
maximum resolution of 2048x1526 at 32bpp. See page 2-19.
Integrated 10/100 Mbps LAN controller
Onboard is a VIA 6103L LAN PHY that that interconnects with the SiS963L
southbridge LAN controller to fully support 10BASE-T/ 100BASE-TX Ethernet
networking. See page 1-17.
SoundMAX digital audio system
The SoundMax Digital Audio System is the industry’s highest performance and
most reliable audio solution for business professionals, audiophiles, musicians,
and gamers. SoundMAX Digital Audio System can output 5.1 channel surround
and features state-of-the-art DLS2 MIDI synthesizer with Yamaha DLSbyXG sound
set, 5.1 Virtual Theater™ and supports all major game audio technologies
including Microsoft DirectX™8.0, Microsoft DirectSound 3D™, A3D, MacroFX,
ZoomFX, MultiDrive 5.1 and EAX. See page 1-17.