2.1 The ASUS TUSL2
The ASUS TUSL2 motherboard is carefully designed for the demanding PC user
who wants advanced features processed by the fastest processors.
2.1.1 Specifications
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Latest Intel Processor Support
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P III
Tualatin™
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P III
Coppermine™
Celeron™
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North Bridge System Chipset: The Intel
the latest Intel
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to PIII
Coppermine™ and Celeron™ CPUs. The chipset supports industry
standard 66/100/133 Front Side Busses (FSBs), and up to 512MB of PC100/
PC133 SDRAM, and AGP Pro/4X mode, which can transport twice the amount
of data compared to the current AGP standard.
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South Bridge System Chipset: The Intel I/O Controller Hub 2 (ICH2) features
support for UltraDMA/100, which allows burst mode data transfer rates of up to
100MB/sec; two USB controllers for a total of 4 USB ports.
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Intel
Accelerated Hub Architecture: Features a dedicated high speed hub
link between the ICH2 and GMCH with a bandwidth of 266MB/sec – twice the
maximum bandwidth of the PCI bus.
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PC100/PC133 Memory Support: Equipped with three Dual Inline Memory
Module (DIMM) sockets to support PC100/PC133-compliant non-ECC SDRAMs
(available in 64, 128, 256, 512Mb densities) up to 512MB.
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Integrated Graphics! The 24-bit 230MHz RAMDAC graphics controller sup-
ports 3D hyper pipelined architecture, parallel data processing and compres-
sion, precise pixel interpolation, full 2D hardware acceleration, and motion video
acceleration. This integrated graphics controller can be disabled to support an
external AGP or PCI graphics card.
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AGP Pro Slot: Comes with an Accelerated Graphics Port Pro slot that supports
AGP cards for high performance, component level interconnect targeted at 3D
graphical applications using a 1X, 2X, or 4X mode bus. Backward compatible
to support AGP 4X and AGP 2X. This slot supports an AGP Inline Memory
Module (AIMM) for up to 4MB of 133MHz SDRAM display cache.
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UltraDMA33/66/100 Support: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE
controller with two connectors that support four IDE devices on two channels.
Supports UltraDMA/100, UltraDMA/66, UltraDMA/33, PIO Modes 3 & 4 and
Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2, and Enhanced IDE devices, such as DVD-ROM,
CD-ROM, CD-R/RW, LS-120, and Tape Backup drives.
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Wake-Up Support: Supports Wake-On-LAN and Wake-On-Ring, Keyboard
Wake-Up, and BIOS Wake-Up.
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Smart Card Reader Compatible: PC/SC compliant Smart Card Reader
connectivity.
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2. FEATURES
100/133MHz FSB FC-PGA2
100/133MHz FSB FC-PGA
100/66MHz FSB FC-PGA
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Tualatin™processor and offers full backward compatibility
ASUS TUSL2 User's Manual
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815E B Stepping chipset supports