DFI G7B330-BR - Manual (Page 11)

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Introduction
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The onboard Realtek ALC885 which is a High Defi-
nition audio codec and the 6 audio jacks at the rear
I/O panel provides 8-channel audio output for advanced 7.1-channel
super surround sound audio system. ALC885 also suppor ts S/PDIF
input and output, allowing digital connections with DVD systems or
other audio/video multimedia.
S/PDIF is a standard audio file transfer format that
transfers digital audio signals to a device without
having to be converted first to an analog format. This prevents the
quality of the audio signal from degrading whenever it is converted
to analog. S/PDIF is usually found on digital audio equipment such as
a DAT machine or audio processing device. The S/PDIF connector on
the system board sends surround sound and 3D audio signal out-
puts to amplifiers and speakers and to digital recording devices like
CD recorders.
Serial ATA is a storage interface that is compliant
with SATA 1.0 specification. With speed of up to
3Gb/s, it improves hard drive performance faster than the standard
parallel ATA whose data transfer rate is 100MB/s. The system board
allows configuring RAID on Serial ATA drives. It supports RAID 0,
RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10.
The JMicron JMB368 chip suppor ts up to two
UltraDMA 133Mbps IDE devices.
The Mar vell 88E8056 PCI Express Gigabit
Ethernet controller supports up to 1Gbps data
transmission.
The system board is equipped with an IrDA connec-
tor for wireless connectivity between your computer
and peripheral devices. The IRDA (Infrared Data Association) specifi-
cation suppor ts data transfers up to 115Kbps baud rate speed.
irda
gigabit lan
S/PDIF
IDE
SERIAL ATA
audio