Main Features - FIC PAK-2005 User Manual

PAK-2005 Mainboard Manual

Main Features

The PAK-2005 mainboard comes with the following high-performance features:
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Easy Installation
Award BIOS with support for Plug and Play, auto detection of Hard Drive and IDE
features, MS Windows 95®, and Windows NT® compatible to make setup of hard
drives, expansion cards, and other devices virtually automatic.
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Flexible Multi-Processor/Multi-Speed Support
Onboard 321-pin ZIF socket and switching voltage regulator supports a complete
range of leading-edge processors:
Intel Pentium® with MMX™ technology (P55C) 166/200/233 MHz processors.
Intel Pentium® (P54C/P54CS) 90/100/120/133/150/166/200 MHz processors.
Cyrix® 6x86™ PR133+ - PR166+ (Rev 2.7 and later) processors.
Cyrix® 6x86MX™ PR166-PR266 processors.
AMD-K5™ 90-200MHz processors.
AMD-K6™ 166-300MHz processors.
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Various External Bus and CPU to Bus Frequency Ratio Support
The mainboard supports the Bus frequency for 55 / 60 / 66.6 MHz and CPU to Bus
frequency ratio of 1x / 1.5x / 1.75x / 2x / 2.5x / 3x / 3.5x / 4x / 4.5x. (Refer to
Select Frequency and Voltage of Chapter 2 for more information.)
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Leading Edge Chipset
VIA VT82C590 VP2 chipset, including a CPU interface controller, advanced cache
controller, integrated DRAM controller, synchronous EISA bus controller,
integrated power management unit.
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Ultra-fast Level II Cache
Supports 256KB/512KB/1MB (onboard 512KB) synchronous Pipelined Burst
SRAM direct-mapped write-back cache memory.
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Versatile Main Memory Support
Accepts up to 256MB RAM in two banks using 72-pin Fast Page Mode (FPM) or
Extended Data Out (EDO) SIMMs of 4, 8, 16, 32, 64MB or using two 168-pin
3.3Volt DIMMs for SDRAM or EDO memory modules up to 128MB. SIMMs and
DIMMs cannot be used at the same time.
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EISA Expansion Slot
One 32-bit EISA expansion slot provides all the room you need to install a full
range of add-on cards by first inserting a riser card.
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USB Support
Onboard support for two Universal Serial Bus connectors via a plug-in connector.
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