Asus P5-99B - Manual (Page 8)

8 ASUS P5-99B User’s Manual
II. FEATURES
Features
II. FEA
TURES
ASUS P5-99B Motherboard
The ASUS P5-99B is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants ad-
vanced features in a small package.
Specifications
• SiS AGPset: SiS ® (Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.) 530 AGPset with support for a
100MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), all current Socket 7 processors and integrated Super AGP
2X 2D/3D VGA controller for high performance hardware 2D/3D VGA acceleration.
• Multi-Processor/Multi-Speed Support: AMD ® K6 ® -2/266 & faster, AMD ® K6 ® /166 &
faster, AMD ® K5 ™ /100–133, IBM ® /Cyrix ® 6x86MX ™ /M II ™ (PR166 & faster), IBM ® /
Cyrix ® 6x86-PR166+ (Rev 2.7 or later), Intel ® Pentium ® 100–233MHz (P55C-MMX ™ ,
P54C/P54CS).
• Multi-Cache: Features 512KB/1MB (when chip is available) pipelined-burst SRAM/
L2 memory cache and integrated Tag RAM to make using the 100MHz bus speed possible.
• PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with three DIMM sockets to support Intel PC100-
compliant SDRAMs (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) up to 768MB. These new SDRAMs
are necessary to meet the enhanced 95MHz/100MHz bus speed requirement.
• AGP 2X VGA Onboard: SiS 530 built-in 2D/3D AGP VGA (on AGPset) with capa-
bility to use shared system memory or optional 8MB SDRAM as local graphics
memory.
• Peripheral Wake Up: Supports modem wake up, keyboard wake up, and LAN card
wake up functions from sleep or soft-off mode.
• Onboard Audio (optional): Provides ESS ® Solo-1 PCI audio chipset with 3D sur-
round and positioning capability and audio CODEC that conforms to AC’97 analog
component specifications. Includes complete online software guide.
• PC Health Monitoring: Provides an easier and convenient way to examine and man-
age system status information, such as CPU and system voltages, temperatures, and
fan status through the onboard PCIset (South Bridge) and the bundled PC Probe from
ASUS.
• UltraDMA/66 BM IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with
two connectors that support four IDE devices in two channels, supports UltraDMA/66,
UltraDMA/33, PIO Modes 3/4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2, and supports En-
hanced IDE devices, such as Tape Backup, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, and LS-120 drives.
• Wake-On-LAN: Supports Wake-On-LAN activity through an optional ASUS PCI-
L101 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI card (see APPENDIX) or a similar ethernet card.
• Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel
port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART2 can also be directed from COM2 (with
SIR) to the Infrared Module for wireless connections.
• USB: Supports the Universal Serial Bus standard through the onboard connectors for
multi-device connections.
• IrDA: Supports an optional infrared port module for a wireless interface.