Chapter 1 Introduction; Features Summary - Gigabyte GA-8S655TX Ultra User Manual

Chapter 1 Introduction

Features Summary

Form Factor
CPU
Chipset
Memory
I/O Control
Slots
On-Board IDE
On-Board Peripherals
(Note 1) When all four sockets are populated with 1GB memory in each DIMM (total 4GB),
the sysem will detect the total size a little bit less than 4GB due to SIS 964 chipset's
resource allocation.
— 30.5cm x 24.4cm ATX size form factor, 4 layers PCB.
— Socket 478 for Intel
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— Support Intel Pentium
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— Support Intel Pentium
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— Intel Pentium 4 800/533/400 MHz FSB
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— 2nd cache depends on CPU
— SiS 655TX Host/Memory controller
— SiS 964 MuTIOL Media I/O
— 4 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets
— Supports Dual channel DDR400/DDR333/DDR266 DIMM
— Supports 128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB unbuffered DRAM
— Supports up to 4GB DRAM (Max)
— IT8705
— 1 AGP slot supports 8X/4X mode
— 5 PCI slot supports 33MHz & PCI 2.3 compliant
— 2 IDE controllers provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM (IDE1, IDE2) with
PIO, Bus Master (Ultra DMA33/ATA66/ATA100/ATA133)
operation modes
— IDE3 and IDE4 compatible with RAID,
Ultra ATA133/100, IDE
— 1 Floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K,1.2M, 1.44M
and 2.88M bytes.
— 1 Parallel port supports Normal/EPP/ECP mode
— 2 Serial ports (COMA&COMB)
— 8 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 x Rear, 4 xFront by cable)
— 3 IEEE1394 ports (by cable)
— 1 Front Audio Connector
— 1 IrDA connector for IR
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Micro FC-PGA2 Pentium
4 (Northwood, Prescott) processor
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4 Processor with HT Technology
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(Note 1)
to be continued......
4 processor
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Introduction