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3 special features, 1 product highlights – Asus PRL-DLS User Manual

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

1.3

Special features

1.3.1 Product highlights

Latest processor technology

The PRL-DLS motherboard supports both Intel

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Xeon™ and Gallatin™

processors via dual 604-pin surface mount ZIF sockets. The processor
features the Intel

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NetBurst™ micro-architecture that includes hyper-pipelined

technology, a rapid execution engine, a 533MHz or a 400MHz system bus,
and an execution trace cache to offer a significant increase in performance.
See page 2-4 for more information.

DDR memory support

Employing the Double Data Rate (DDR) memory technology, the PRL-DLS
motherboard supports up to 4GB of system memory using PC2100/1600
registered ECC DDR DIMMs. The ultra-fast 200MHz memory bus doubles
the speed of the PC100 SDRAM to deliver the required bandwidth for the
latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. See page 2-10.

Dual-channel Ultra-160/320 SCSI

The LSI

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53C1010R 64-bit/66MHz PCI SCSI controller, or the

LSI

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53C1030 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X SCSI controller , is onboard to support

dual-channel Ultra-160/320 SCSI connectors that provide high-speed data
transfer interfaces.

Advanced 64-bit PCI-X slots

The 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X slots onboard maximizes I/O bandwidth for the
next generation 64-bit PCI-X cards that support 100MHz bus. The PCI-X
specification 1.0a allows full peer-to-peer transactions between PCI buses
and provides options for intelligent I/O and server management cards.

ATA/100 IDE support

The dual-channel bus master IDE connectors comply with the ATA/100
protocol and supports ATA/100, Multi-Word DMA Mode2, PIO modes 3 & 4
IDE devices such as ATAPI IDE CD-ROM, CD-R/RW, ZIP, and LS-120
drives.