Chapter 1 System Specifications; Overview - Acer Aspire E500 Service Manual

System Specifications

Overview

All the new Socket-T motherboards come with a socket protector that has to be removed before you
fit the CPU. This is to prevent damage to the pins inside the CPU socket before the chip is inserted.
The new CPU socket is known as Socket-T and the new processors will be of LGA775 type. LGA stands
forLand Grid Array and means that there are no pins on the bottom of the CPU, although there are still contact
surfaces - no less 775 of them. The CPU interface has been moved to the mainboard socket and this is a
way for Intel to get fewer returns in terms of damaged CPUs due to bent or broken pins.
These two models (Aspire T650/E500 & AcerPower F5) use ATI on die VGA chipset to address the overall
platform graphic performance. We provide the most time-to-market specification:
Support Intel 775 pin mainstream CPU up to P4 4.0Ghz/FSB 800
On board ATI VGA performed great graphic power than previous AGP 8X
Add-On PCI-Express VGA card provides extra graphic solution for extensive gamers
DDR II memory with dual channel provides faster processing speed and efficiency
Aspire T650/E500 will be the product name for consumer market. AcerPower F5 will be the product name
for commercial market. Please refer below table for more details address toward each chipset that be used in
this project : (It's only for reference as guideline)
Chipset
ATI RC410 Express chipset
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General Features
64-bit single-channel DDR/DDR2 SDRAM interface
SUpports one PCI Express x16 for Graphics Interface,
fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification
revision 1.0a
Full support for 3D primitive, Direct3D texture lighting,
and OpenGL format for Indirect Vertices in Vertex
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Full DirectX 9.0 support(Vertex Shader version 2.0 and
Pixel shader version 2.0)
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