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Serial ATA connectors
These four 7-pin connectors accommodate the thin cables for Serial ATA
devices.
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South Bridge
Intel ICH6/6R is subsystem that integrates various I/O functions including
one channel ATA100 bus master IDE controller, up to eight USB 2.0 ports, four
serial ATA 150 , two PCI Express x1, HD Audio CODEC. ICH6R supports RAID
0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, Matrix RAID functions.
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Super I/O
IT8712F is the newest member of ITE' s growing family of Low Pin Count
Interface-based Super I/O devices with Environment Controller integration. It
provides the most commonly used legacy Super I/O functionality plus the
latest Environment Control initiatives, such as H/W Monitor, ITE' s
" SmartGuardian" function. It meets the Microsoft PC98/99/2001 System Design
Guide requirements and is ACPI compliant.
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PCI slot
The one 32-bit PCI 2.3 expansion slot supports bus master PCI card like
SCSI or LAN card with 133MB/s maximum throughput.
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1394 controller (-E)(optional)
VT6307 is the controller for IEEE1394a on motherboard. The VT6307 is a
complete small package single chip PCI solution at 400Mbps, low power
seamless plug and play connections to the latest IEEE 1394 enabled devices.
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PCI Express x16 slot (only for 915G/P)
PCI Express x16 will offer 4GB/sec (8 GB/sec concurrent) bandwidth, the
request pipe depth will go from 32 to 256, and the power delivered will be 75
watts max for PCI Express, compared to 25 watts for AGP 8X.
Chapter 1
915M03 Series User Manual
Product Introduction
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