Introduction; Intel 820 Chipset; Summary Of New Technologies - Compaq AP250 - Deskpro Workstation - 128 MB RAM Manual

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Introduction

Compaq Deskpro Workstations are high performance workstations that provide workstation
performance at an exceptional price for business, technical and creative professional customers.
Customer market segments include:
Financial trading or analysis
Computer aided design (CAD)
Computer-aided engineering (CAE)
Digital content creation (DCC)
Electronic design automation (EDA)
Software development
Geographical information systems (GIS)
Compaq Deskpro Workstations offer customers the latest in technological innovation to meet
their needs today and in the challenging workstation environments of tomorrow, with models
designed for a variety of customers. This paper describes the key technologies for new Compaq
Deskpro Workstation models with the Intel 820 chipset.

Intel 820 Chipset

The 820 chipset is targeted for the upper-mainstream and price/performance workstation
segments. Replacing the 440BX chipset as the price/performance workstation chipset, the 820
enables the latest technologies such as AGP 4X, RDRAM, Ultra ATA/66, and 133-MHz Front
Side Bus (FSB).

Summary of New Technologies

133-MHz FSB provides a faster bus for higher processor throughput
4X AGP (266-MHz AGP speed) enables faster 3D graphics and video processing
RDRAM memory interface provides up to 1.6 GB of memory bandwidth for improved
overall system performance
Ultra ATA/66 supports high performance hard drive data transfer
Enhanced manageability with support for Alert on LAN (AoL) technology
Embedded AC '97 digital controller to enable low cost implementation of audio and modem
technology
Enhanced baseline security architecture will initially include Random Number Generator
(RNG) for enabling security feature implementations
New Hub-Link architecture enables future accelerated I/O expansions (multiple USB, 1394
I/Os) without saturating system bandwidth
ACPI Power Management for PCI and USB
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