Asus A7N8X Deluxe User Manual download pdf (Page 14)

Chapter 1: Product introduction

1.2

Core Specifications

The A7N8X motherboard is designed and assembled according to the highest

standards. This ASUS motherboard represents the latest advances and

offers users the finest componentry available today...

AMD

Athlon

™

/ Athlon

™

XP and Duron

™

Socket A (462) Processor

North Bridge Chipset: the nVidia

nForce2

™

SPP North Bridge controller

chipset. The controller supports a 64/128bit DDR memory controller and

up to 3 GB of 400/333/266/200MHz DDR memory. The 128bit memory

controller provides a exceptional 6.4 GB/second system memory

bandwidth.

South Bridge Chipset: Features the brand new nVidia

nForce2

™

MCP-T/

MCP integrated peripheral South Bridge controller operates at 800MB/

sec to communicate with the North Bridge for maximum bandwith required

for PCI, USB and support for Fast Ethernet devices. The chipset has an

integrated APU (Audio Processing Unit) for Dolby

™

digital

encoding(optional). The controller supports standard UltraDMA133/100/

66/33 for burst mode data transfer rates of up to 133MB/sec. Separate

data paths for each IDE channel are built-in for up to two IDE devices.

The controller supports 2 IEEE 1394 ports (optional), six USB ports, two

LAN ports (optional), and is PCI rev2.2 compliant. The MCP-T/MCP

supplies an LPC 1.0 interface along with AT legacy functions, a clock

synthesizer and meets ACPI 1.0 and PCI Power Management 1.1

specifications.

PC3200 / PC2700 DDR Support: Equipped with three Double Data Rate

Dual Inline Memory Module (DDR DIMM) sockets to support up to 3GB of

DDR DRAM, the newest memory standard with the highest bandwidth

and lowest latency currently available. This new memory technology

supplies data transfer rates up to 6.4 GB/s for 400MHz DDR SDRAM

and 5.4GB/s for 333MHz DDR SDRAM.

UltraDMA133/100 Support: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE

controller with two connectors that support four IDE devices on two

channels. Supports UltraDMA133/100/66/33, PIO Modes 3 & 4, Bus

Master IDE DMA Mode 2, and Enhanced IDE devices, such as DVD-

ROM, CD-ROM, CD-R/RW, LS-120, and Tape Backup drives.

Multi-I/O Chipset: ITE IT8708 offers support for a variety of I/O functions.

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. The Super I/O

controller supports a floppy disk drive, PS/2 keyboard, and PS/2 mouse.

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