Features; The Asus P3B-1394 Motherboard; Specifications - Asus P3B-1394 User Manual

2.1 The ASUS P3B-1394 Motherboard

The ASUS P3B-1394 is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants
advanced features processed by the fastest CPU.

2.1.1 Specifications

• Multi-Speed: Supports Intel Pentium
(233MHz to 450MHz), and Celeron
• 1394-1995 and 1394.A Ready: Integrated TI
troller and 400Mbps physical layer controller provide a fast, scalable, easy-to-
use digital interface for throughput intensive consumer electronics devices such
as, DV camcorders, digital cameras, scanners, and printers. IEEE-1394 supports
traditional asynchronous data transfer as well as isochronous (real-time) data
transfer.
• Intel AGPset: Features Intel's 440BX AGPset with I/O subsystems and front-side
bus (FSB) platform, which boosts the traditional 66MHz external bus speed to 100MHz.
• Multi-Cache: Supports processors with 512, 256, 128, or 0KB Pipelined Burst
Level 2 cache.
• Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Features a programmable BIOS, offering enhanced
Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) support for Windows 98 com-
patibility, built-in firmware-based virus protection through Trend ChipAway Virus
codes, and autodetection of most devices for virtually automatic setup.
• PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with two DIMM sockets to support Intel
PC100-compliant SDRAMs (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) up to 512MB. These
new SDRAMs are necessary to meet the critical enhanced 100MHz bus speed
requirement.
• PCI Audio with AC'97 Codec (optional): Features Aureal's Vortex 2 posi-
tional 3D audio chip with A3D 2.0 hardware support. A3D 2.0 provides many
advanced 3D audio features, including Aureal Wavetracing
waves in real-time to simulate the acoustic characteristics of the environment
for true 3D audio.
• Peripheral Wake Up: Supports modem wake up and LAN card wake up func-
tions from sleep or soft-off mode.
• PC Health Monitoring: Provides an easier way to examine and manage system
status information, such as CPU and system voltages, temperatures, and fan
status through the onboard hardware ASIC and the bundled LDCM by Intel or
PC Probe from ASUS.
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2. FEATURES

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