Chapter 1: Introduction - PCchips M921 Series User Manual

1: Introduction
Chapter 1
Introduction
This mainboard has a Socket 423 for the Intel Pentium 4 type
processors supporting front side bus (FSB) speeds up to 400 MHz.
This mainboard has the VIA VT8753 Northbridge and VT8233
Southbridge chipsets that support AC 97 audio codec, and provide
Ultra DMA 33/66/100 function. This mainboard has three 32-bit
PCI slots, a 4xAGP slot, a CNR (Communications and
Networking Riser) slot, and an onboard 10BaseT/100BaseTX
Network interface (optional). In addition, this mainboard has a full
set of I/O ports including two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard,
two serial ports, one parallel port, one MIDI/game port and six
USB ports (two backpanel ports, onboard USB headers providing
four extra ports).
By means of the Extended USB Module connected to the
mainboard, you can make four extra USB ports.
This mainboard is a Micro ATX mainboard that uses a 4-layer
printed circuit board and measures 244 x 240mm.
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