Expanded USB Support
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Includes 2 OHCI host controllers.
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Includes 1 EHCI USB2.0 Host Controller that supports all ports
(Bandwidth is shared between the all ports).
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This motherboard supports USB 2.0 only on Windows® 2000
(with SP4 or above) and Windows® XP (with SP1 or above) operation
systems.
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SB600 support ten ports and SB460 support eight ports only.
PCI Express Graphics interface
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One 16-lane (X16 port) PCI Express graphics port, fully compliant
with the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
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A base PCI Express frequency of 2.5Gb/s only.
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PCI Express support and Enhanced Addressing Mechanism.
PCI ExpressX1 Ports
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Full PCI Express 1.0a compliant.
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One virtual channel support for full isochronous data transfers.
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Support for full 2.5Gb/s bandwidth in each direction per X1 lane.
On-board I/O
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One on board PCI fast IDE ports supporting up to 2 ATA, ATA2 , Ultra
ATA33/66/100/133 IDE HDDs, CD-ROMs, ZIP drives and LS-120
drives as boot drive.
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One ECP/EPP parallel port.
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One 16550 Compatible UART serial port (via a header).
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One floppy port which supports two FDD of 1.44MB, 2.88MB capacity.
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Eight USB ports (four ports via two headers) for SB460.
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Ten USB ports (six ports via three headers) for SB600.
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PS/2 keyboard support.
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PS/2 mouse support.
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One front panel sound connector.
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Infrared (IrDA) support via a header.
On-board Realtek RTL8100C/RTL8110S PCI LAN (optional)
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Provides 32-bit performance, PCI bus master capability.
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Full compliance with IEEE 802.3u 100 Base-T specifications and
IEEE 802.3X Full Duplex Flow Control.
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Supports 10 Mb/s, 100 Mb/s and 1000 Mb/s (only for RTL8110S)
operation.
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Supports Wake-On-LAN function and remote wake-up.
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Supports ACPI, PCI Power management and PCI VPD.
SAPPHIRE PURE ELEMENT
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