Foxconn 915A01-P-8EKRS2 - Manual (Page 15)

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915A01 Series User Manual
Chapter 1 Product Introduction
Flash ROM
This 4 Mb flash ROM contains the programmable BIOS program.
Super I/O
IT8712F is the newest member of ITE’s growing family of Low Pin Count
Interface-based Super I/O devices with Environment Controller integration. It
provides the most commonly used legacy Super I/O functionality plus the
latest Environment Control initiatives, such as H/W Monitor, ITE’s
“SmartGuardian” function. It meets the Microsoft PC98/99/2001 System Design
Guide requirements and is ACPI compliant.
South Bridge
Intel ICH6/ICH6R is subsystem that integrates various I/O functions including
one channel ATA100 bus master IDE controller, up to eight USB 2.0 ports, four
serial ATA 150, three PCI Express x1, HD Audio CODEC. ICH6R supports
RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and Matrix RAID functions.
PCI Express x16 slot
PCI Express x16 will offer 4 GB/sec (8 GB/sec concurrent) bandwidth, the
request pipe depth will go from 32 to 256, and the power delivered will be 75
watts max for PCI Express, compared to 25 watts for AGP 8X.
1394 controller (-E)(optional)
VT6307 is the controller for IEEE1394a on motherboard. The VT6307 is a
complete small package single chip PCI solution at 400 Mbps, low power
seamless plug and play connections to the latest IEEE 1394 enabled devices.
PCI slots
These three 32-bit PCI 2.3 expansion slots support bus master PCI cards
like SCSI or LAN cards with 133MB/s maximum throughput.
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