Special Features; Product Highlights - Asus PC-DL Deluxe User Manual

1.3

Special features

1.3.1 Product highlights

Latest processor technology
The motherboard supports the latest Intel
604-pin surface mount ZIF sockets. The processor with 512KB L2 cache
includes a 533/400 MHz system bus and features the Intel Hyper-
Threading Technology and new power design that allow up to 3.06+GHz
core frequencies. See page 2-4 for more information.
Dual-channel DDR333 memory support
Employing the dual-channel DDR memory architecture, the motherboard
provides a solution that doubles the system memory bandwidth to boost
system performance. The motherboard supports up to 4GB of system
memory using PC2700/2100 unbuffered ECC or non-ECC DDR DIMMs to
deliver up to 5.33GB/s data transfer rate for the latest 3D graphics,
multimedia, and Internet applications. See page 2-11.
When all four sockets are populated with 1GB DIMMs (total 4GB), the
system may detect only 3.8GB due to ICH5R and other onboard
devices resource allocation.
Serial ATA technology
The motherboard supports the new Serial ATA technology through the
SATA interfaces, and the Intel ICH5R and Promise
onboard. The SATA specification allows for thinner, more flexible cables
with lower pin count, reduced voltage requirement, and up to 150MB/s
data transfer rate. See page 2-23.
Multi-RAID solution
The motherboard has the Promise
RAID solution using Serial ATA/150 and Ultra ATA/133 hard disks. The
RAID0 (striping), RAID1 (mirroring), and RAID 0+1 provide a cost-effective
high-performance solution for added system performance and reliability.
AGP 8X support
The motherboard supports the latest graphic architecture, the AGP Pro/8X
interface (a.k.a. AGP 3.0), offering 2.1GB/s bandwidth which is twice that
of its predecessor AGP 4X.
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Xeon™ processor via dual
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