Asus MEW-B - Manual (Page 8)

8 ASUS MEW-B User’s Manual
2. FEATURES
Specifications 2. FEA
TURES
2.1 The ASUS MEW-B Motherboard
The MEW-B 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 MEW-B motherboard?
2.1.1 Specifications
• Latest Intel Socket 370 Processor Support! Supports Intel’s Celeron proces-
sor designed for Socket 370 and packaged in Plastic Pin Grid Array (PPGA).
• Latest Intel 810 Chipset! Features 100MHz FSB Intel 810 chipset (GMCH0 &
ICH) and a 24-bit 230MHz RAMDAC graphics controller.
• 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.
• 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.
• Smart Audio! Software Audio and Hardware AC’97 V2.1 Codec compliant,
Analog Device’s 3D sound circuitry, sample rate conversion from 7kHz to 48kHz.
• 3D Positional Audio! Brings new levels of realism to games with sounds being
positioned interactively around the user, making them truly part of the 3D vir-
tual experience. Better music reproduction is possible with MIDI utilizing
Wavetable synthesis.
• Remote PC Management! Alert-on-LAN allows network administrators to re-
motely manage PCs by enabling PCs to send alerts through the network inter-
face to the network administrator when there is hardware/operating system fail-
ure or evidence of tampering.
• 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 in case you
want to manually adjust the processor’s external frequency.
• Smart Slots! Provides four 32-bit PCI (rev 2.2) expansion slots and one 16-bit
ISA expansion slot (availability of three PCI with two ISA or four PCI with no
ISA is dependent on territory). PCI supports up to 133MB/s maximum through-
put. Each PCI slot can support a Bus Master PCI card (such as SCSI or LAN
cards).