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C h a p t e r 1 : P r o d u c t i n t r o d u c t i o n

1.3

Special features

1.3.1

Product highlights

Latest processor technology

The motherboard comes with a 775-pin surface mount Land Grid Array
(LGA) socket designed for the Intel

Pentium

4 processor in the 775-land

package. The motherboard supports the Intel

Pentium

4 processor with

800/533 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB). The motherboard also supports the
Intel

Hyper-Threading Technology and is fully compatible with Intel

04B

and 04A processors. See page 2-7 for details.

Intel

915P

The Intel

915P chipset provides the interface for a processor in the

775-land package with 533/800MHz front side bus (FSB), dual channel
DDR2 at speeds of up to 533MHz, and PCI Express x16-lane port for
graphics card. The Intel

915P MCH platform is compliant to the Direct

Media Interface (DMI) and supports the sixth generation I/O Controller Hub
(ICH6).

DDR2 memory support

The motherboard supports DDR2 memory which features data transfer
rates of 533/400 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the
latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The dual-channel
DDR2 architecture doubles the bandwidth of your system memory to boost
system performance, eliminating bottlenecks with peak bandwidths of up
to 8.6 GB/s. See page 2-13 for details.

Serial ATA technology

The motherboard supports the Serial ATA technology through the Serial ATA
interfaces and the Intel

ICH6R. The SATA specification allows for thinner,

more flexible cables with lower pin count, reduced voltage requirement, and
up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate. See page 2-27.