Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS RS482M-M Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the RS482M-M motherboard. This motherboard is a high perfor-
mance, enhanced function motherboard that supports Socket AM2 AMD Athlon 64 FX/
Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon 64/Sempron CPUs for high-end business or personal
desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the RS482 Northbridge (NB) and SB450 Southbridge (SB)
chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport (HT) interface speeds up to
2000MT/s data rate. RS482 integrated an ATI RADEON X300-based graphics core, coupled
with a high speed HyperTransport interface for optimal 3D performance. This motherboard
supports two DDR2 Sockets with maximum memory size of 16 GB. One PCI Express x16
slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specifica-
tion revision 1.0a.
The SB450 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. It implements
an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480Mb/s bandwidth for eight USB 2.0 ports
(rear panel x 4, header x 4). Two onboard IDE connectors supports 4 IDE devices in UDMA
133/100/66/33 mode. The Southbridge integrates two Serial ATA host controllers that are
SATA v1.0 compliant, supporting four SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 1.5
Gb/s each.
The RS482M-M motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear
panel, including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, COM1, LPT, VGA, four USB ports,
one optional LAN port, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
Introducing the Motherboard