Asus P3B-F - Manual (Page 8)

8 ASUS P3B-F User’s Manual
2.1 The ASUS P3B-F Motherboard
The ASUS P3B-F is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants ad-
vanced features processed by the fastest CPU.
2.1.1 Specifications
• Multi-Speed: Supports Intel Pentium ® III (450MHz and faster), Pentium ® II
(233MHz to 450MHz), and Celeron TM (266MHz and faster) processors.
• Intel AGPset: Features Intel’s 440BX AGPset with I/O subsystems and front-side
bus (FSB) platform, which boosts the traditional 66MHz external bus speed to 100MHz.
• Multi-Cache: Supports processors with 512, 256, 128, or 0KB Pipelined Burst
Level 2 cache.
• PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with four DIMM sockets to support Intel
PC100-compliant SDRAMs (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) up to 1024MB. These
new SDRAMs are necessary to meet the critical enhanced 100MHz bus speed
requirement.
• JumperFree™ BIOS: Allows processor settings and easy overclocking of fre-
quency and Vcore voltages all through BIOS setup when JumperFree™ mode is
enabled. Easy-to-use DIP switches intsead of jumpers are provided to manually
setup the processor.
• Smart BIOS: 2Mb firmware provides Vcore and CPU/SDRAM frequency ad-
justments, boot block write protection, and HD/SCSI/MO/ZIP/CD/Floppy boot
selection. Power supply is autodetected to enable/disable suspend-to-RAM and
KB/PS/2 mouse power up, eliminating the need to make jumper adjustments.
• Multi-device Wake Up: Supports modem wake up, keyboard/PS/2 mouse wake
up, and LAN card wake up functions from sleep or soft-off mode.
• PC Health Monitoring: Provides an easier way to examine and manage system
status information, such as CPU and system voltages, temperatures, and fan
status through the onboard hardware ASIC and the bundled LDCM from Intel or
PC Probe from ASUS.
• Enhanced ACPI & Anti-Boot Virus Protection: Programmable BIOS (flash
EEPROM), offering enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-in firm-
ware-based virus protection, and autodetection of most devices for virtually au-
tomatic setup.
• AGP Slot: Supports an Accelerated Graphics Port card for high performance,
component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications us-
ing a 1X or 2X mode bus.
• SMBus: Features the System Management Bus interface, which is used to physi-
cally transport commands and information between SMBus devices.
2. FEATURES
Specifications
2. FEA
TURES