Asus K8V Deluxe User Manual
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ASUS K8V Deluxe motherboard user guide
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Super I/O controller. The Winbond W83697HF provides the
commonly used Super I/O functionality. The chipset supports a high-
performance floppy disk controller for a 360K/720K/1.44M/2.88M
floppy disk drive, a multi-mode parallel port, 2 serial ports, the mouse
and keyboard interface and the LPC (Low Pin Count) interface.
SouthBridge controller. The VIA
®
VT8237 integrated peripheral
controller supports various I/O functions including two Serial ATA
ports, RAID functionality, 2-channel ATA/133 bus master IDE
controller, up to eight USB 2.0 ports, LPC Super I/O interface,
AC’97 interface and PCI 2.2 interface.
RAID controller. The Promise
®
R20378 RAID controller provides
high-performance RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 functionality and
complies with the Serial ATA and UltraDMA 133 specifications.
COM2 connector. This 9-pin COM2 connector is for a COM2 cable
for an additional serial port.
WiFi slot. The WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) slot connects a Wi-Fi
wireless networking module that allows 11Mbps transmission (with
a fallback to 5.5, 2 and 1 Mbps) in the 2.4 GHz band. Wi-Fi
networks use radio technologies known as IEEE 802.11b to provide
a fast reliable wireless connectivity.
Speech controller. The Winbond 83791SD facilitates the POST
speech functionality.
PCI slots. These five 32-bit PCI 2.2 expansion slots support bus
master PCI cards like SCSI or LAN cards with 133MB/s maximum
throughput.
Audio CODEC. The ADI 1980 is an AC’97 compliant audio
CODEC for PC multimedia systems.
Gigabit LAN controller. The 3Com
®
Gigabit LAN delivers transfer
rates up to ten times faster than conventional 10/100 Ethernet
connections. Ideal for handling large amounts of data such as
video, audio and voice.
IEEE 1394 controller. The VIA
®
VT6307 is a single-chip, low power
2-port IEEE 1394 host controller providing high speed, flexible
connectivity to a wide range of peripherals and consumer
electronics.
PS/2 mouse port. This green 6-pin connector is for a PS/2 mouse.
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