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Introducing the Mainboard
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Congratulations on purchasing the P6VPA2T mainboard. The
P6VPA2T mainboard is an ATX mainboard that uses a 4-layer
printed circuit board and measures 220 mm x 304 mm. The
mainboard features a Socket 370 that accommodates FC-
PGA Celeron, FC-PGA Pentium II/III and Tualatin processors
supporting frontside bus (FSB) speeds of 66/100/133 MHz.
The P6VPA2T incorporates the VIA Pro266T Northbridge and
VT8233 Southbridge chipsets which combine support for the
new high-bandwidth Double D ata Rate (DDR) 266 SDRAM,
and the AC 97 audio codec.
Note: SDRAM provides 800 MBps or 1 GBps data trans-
fer depending on whether the bus is 100 MHz or
133 MHz. Double Data Rate SDRAM (DDR
SDRAM) doubles the rate to 1.6 GBps or 2.1 GBps
by transferring data on both the rising and falling
edges of the clock. DDR SDRAM uses additional
power and ground lines and requires 184-pin DIMM
modules rather than the 168-pin DIMMs used by
SDRAM.
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Compare the mainboard's package contents with the following
checklist:
Standard Items
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One mainboard
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One diskette drive ribbon cable and bracket
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One IDE drive ribbon cable and bracket
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Software support CD
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This user's manual
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