Asus P3W-E - Manual (Page 8)

8 ASUS P3W-E User’s Manual
2. FEATURES
Specifications 2. FEA
TURES
2.1 The ASUS P3W-E Motherboard
The P3W-E motherboard from ASUS is carefully designed for the demanding PC
user who wants many smart features in a small package. So what’s so smart about
the ASUS P3W-E motherboard?
2.1.1 Specifications
• Latest Intel Processor Support! Supports Intel Pentium ® III (450MHz and
faster), Pentium ® II (233MHz to 450MHz), and Celeron™ (266MHz and faster)
processors.
• Latest Intel 810e Chipset! Features 133/100/66MHz FSB Intel 810e chipset
with the Accelerated Hub Architecture, which provides direct connections be-
tween the 810e chipset and subsystems such as IDE controllers, USB control-
lers, and PCI add-in cards.
• Multi-Cache! Supports processors with 512, 256, 128, or 0KB Pipelined Burst
Level 2 Cache.
• Integrated Graphics! Controller supports 3D hyper pipelined architecture, par-
allel data processing and compression, precise pixel interpolation, full 2D hard-
ware acceleration, and motion video acceleration. Onboard 4MB 32-bit 100MHz
SDRAM display cache allows up to 1024x768x16bit color for 3D graphics and
1600x1200x8bit color for 2D graphics.
• ASUS Graphics Driver! You can gain about 12% performance over that of the
standard graphics driver (2D high-end graphics WinMark) using ASUS’ custom
graphics driver. ASUS custom graphics driver also provides more features and
provides selection of higher refresh rates and resolutions.
• Versatile Memory Support! DRAM controller supports asymmetrical address-
ing and three DIMM sockets support Intel PC100-compliant SDRAMs (16, 32,
64, 128, or 256MB) up to 512MB. (supports a maximum of 4 sides)
• JumperFree™ Mode! Allows processor settings and easy overclocking of fre-
quency and Vcore voltage all through BIOS setup when JumperFree™ mode is
enabled. Easy-to-use DIP switches instead of jumpers are included incase you
want to manually adjust the processor’s external frequency.
• Smart Slots! Five 32-bit PCI (rev 2.2) with two 16-bit ISA expansion slots or
six PCI with no ISA, depending on territory. PCI supports up to 133MB/s maxi-
mum throughput. Each PCI slot can support a Bus Master PCI card (such as
SCSI or LAN cards).
• Latest Low Pin Count Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART compatible
serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities.
• Integrated IDE! Controller supports UltraDMA/66 up to 66MB/s, UltraDMA/
33 up to 33MB/s, and PIO Mode 4 up to 17MB/s.
• Peripheral Wake-Up! Supports Wake-On-LAN, Wake-On-Ring, Keyboard
Wake-Up, and BIOS Wake-Up.
• AMR Slot! Audio Modem Riser slot supports a very affordable audio and/or
modem riser card.