Asus P2B-VM - Manual (Page 8)

8 ASUS P2B-VM User’s Manual
II. FEATURES
Features
II. FEA
TURES
Features of the ASUS P2B-VM Motherboard
The ASUS P2B-VM is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants
advanced features processed by the fastest CPU.
Specifications:
•
Multi-Speed: Supports Intel 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 66-MHz internal bus speed to 100MHz.
• Multi-Cache: Supports processors with either 0, 128, or 512KB Pipelined Burst
Level 2 cache.
• PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with three DIMM sockets to support Intel
PC100-compliant SDRAMs (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) up to 768MB. These
new SDRAMs are necessary to meet the critical enhanced 100MHz bus speed
requirement.
• Peripheral Wake Up: Supports modem wake up, keyboard wake up, and LAN
card wake up functions from sleep or soft-off mode.
• AGP 3D VGA: Features optional onboard ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X (8MB
SDRAM) or Rage IIC AGP (4MB SDRAM) for 3D hardware acceleration.
• AGP Slot (optional): Supports AGP graphics cards for high performance, com-
ponent level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications. This
slot is available as an option with the Rage IIC only.
• PCI Audio (optional): Features optional ESS 32-bit PCI audio onboard.
• SB-Link™: Features Creative’s SB-Link™, allowing SB16 compatibility, us-
ing Intel’s PC-PCI DMA and serialized IRQ protocols, to AWE64D or compat-
ible PCI audio cards.
• PCI & ISA Expansion Slots: Provides three 32-bit PCI slots and one 16-bit ISA
slot. The ISA slot is shared with a PCI slot.
• Super Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and
one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART2 can also be directed from
COM2 to the Infrared Module for wireless connections.
• Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE
controller with two connectors that support four IDE devices in two channels, supports
UltraDMA/33, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2, and supports
Enhanced IDE devices, such as Tape Backup and CD-ROM, and LS-120 drives.
• Universal Retention Mechanism: Supports a Pentium ® II processor packaged
in a Single Edge Contact Cartridge (SECC/SECC2) or a Celeron TM processor
packaged in a Single Edge Processor Package (SEPP).
• Wake-On-LAN Header: Supports Wake-On-LAN activity with special net-
work cards, such as the ASUS PCI-L101 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI card.