1.1 IMBA-8650 Introduction
Figure 1-1: IMBA-8650
The IMBA-8650 motherboard is a Socket 478 Intel® Pentium® 4/Intel® Celeron® CPU
platform with an Intel® 865G Express Northbridge and Intel® I/O Controller Hub 5 (ICH5)
Southbridge. The IMBA-8650 has a maximum front side bus (FSB) frequency of 800MHz,
supporting up to 4GB of dual channel 266/333/400MHz DDR RAM. Input/Output options
include AGP, VGA, PS/2 keyboard/mouse, COM ports, parallel port, audio interfaces and
a Realtek or Intel® GbE. The IMBA-8650 supports up to two serial ATA (SATA) hard disk
drives and up to eight USB 2.0 devices.
1.2 IMBA-8650 Benefits
Some of the IMBA-8650 benefits are listed below.
High-speed graphics card options with an AGP expansion slot
Expansion capabilities enabled by five PCI slots
Backwards compatibility through two legacy ISA slots
Enhanced data security with SATA RAID 1 or increased speed with
SATARAID 0
Multiple storage options with CompactFlash®, IDE and SATA interfaces
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