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5. CPU, Chipset and Super I/O
5.1 CPU
The coolMONSTER/PM is available with an Intel® Mobile Pentium®-M
or Celeron®-M central processing unit (CPU) from 0.8GHz up to
1.8GHz
or
1.8GHz.
However,
other
versions (half cache size, no SpeedStep® technology) of this
board are available.
Intel® Mobile Pentium®-M CPU features include:
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Supports Intel® Architecture with Dynamic Execution
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High performance, low-power core
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On-die, primary 32-kbyte instruction cache and 32-kbyte
write-back data cache
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On-die, up to 2-MByte (depends on CPU) second level cache
with Advanced Transfer Cache Architecture
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Advanced Branch Prediction and Data Prefetch Logic
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Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2)
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400-MHz, Source-Synchronous processor system bus
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Advanced Power Management features, including Enhanced
Intel SpeedStep® technology (only for Pentium® M
processors)
coolMONSTER/PM User's Guide
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GHz
as
well
as
Celeron®-M
CPU, Chipset and Super I/O
5.2 Chipset
The chipset of the coolMONSTER/PM consists of the Intel® 855GME
chipset GMCH (Graphics and Memory Controller Hub) and the Intel
® 82801DB ICH-4 (I/O Controller Hub 4).
GMCH (855GME Chipset)
5.2.1
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Processor/Host Bus Support
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Intel® Pentium® M and Celeron® M processors
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Supports system bus at 400MHz
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Supports Enhanced Intel® SpeedStep® technology
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Memory System
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Directly supports one DDR SDRAM channel, 64-bits wide
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Supports 200/266-MHz DDR SDRAM devices with double-sided
DIMMs (four rows populated) with unbuffered PC1600/PC2100
DDR SDRAM.
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Supports 128-Mbit, 256-Mbit, and 512-Mbit technologies
providing maximum capacity of 1 GB with x16 devices
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All supported devices have four banks
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Internal Graphics Features
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Up to 32MB of dynamic video memory allocation
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Display image rotation
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Graphics core frequency
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Display core frequency at 133MHz or 200MHz
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Render core frequency at 100MHz,133MHz, 200MHz
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2D graphics engine
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3D graphics engine
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Single- or dual-channel LVDS panel support up to UXGA panel
resolution with frequency range from 25MHz to 112MHz
(single channel/dual channel)
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Video Stream Decoder
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Improved hardware motion compensation for MPEG2
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Software DVD at 60 Fields/second and 30 frames/second full
screen
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Support for standard definition DVD (i.e. NTSC pixel
resolution of 720x480, etc.)
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quality encoding at low CPU utilization
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Power Management
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APM 1.2 compliant power management
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ACPI 1.0b, 2.0 support
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Enhanced Intel® SpeedStep Technology support
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