Asus PCH-DL - Manual (Page 14)

1-2 Chapter 1: Product introduction
Latest processor technology
The motherboard supports dual Intel ® Xeon™ Processors via 604-pin surface
mount ZIF sockets. The processor has 1MB/512KB L2 cache, includes a
533/400MHz system bus, and features the Intel Hyper-Threading
Technology that allows up to 3.2GHz core frequencies.
Dual-channel DDR333 memory support
Employing the dual-channel DDR memory architecture, the motherboard
provides a solution that doubles the system memory bandwidth to boost
system performance. The motherboard supports up to 4GB of system
memory using PC2700/PC2100 ECC or non-ECC DDR DIMMs to deliver
up to 5.33GB/s data transfer rate for the latest 3D graphics, multimedia,
and Internet applications.
Serial ATA technology
The motherboard supports the new Serial ATA technology through the
SATA interfaces and the Intel
® 6300ESB ICH and Promise ® PDC20378
controllers onboard. The SATA specification allows for thinner, more
flexible cables with lower pin count, reduced voltage requirement, and up
to 150MB/s data transfer rate.
Multi-RAID solution
The motherboard has the Promise ® PDC20378 controller to support multi-
RAID solution using Serial ATA/150 hard disks. The RAID0 (striping),
RAID1 (mirroring), and RAID 0+1 provide a cost-effective high-
performance solution for added system performance and reliability.
AGP 8X support
The motherboard supports the latest graphic architecture, the AGP Pro/8X
interface (a.k.a. AGP 3.0), offering 2.1GB/s bandwidth which is twice that
of its predecessor AGP 4X.
USB 2.0 technology
The motherboard implements the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0
specification, dramatically increasing the connection speed from the 12
Mbps bandwidth on USB 1.1 to a fast 480 Mbps on USB 2.0. USB 2.0 is
backward compatible with USB 1.1.
1.3 Special features