Chapter 1 Introduction; Key Features - ECS Motherboard User Manual

Chapter 1 Introduction

This motherboard has AMD Geode NX processor onboard with front-side bus
speed 266 MHz.
This motherboard has the SiS741GX Northbridge and SiS964L Southbridge that
supports the AC' 97 audio codec, the Ultra DMA 133/100/66 function, and the
built-in USB 2.0 providing higher bandwidth. It implements Universal Serial Bus
Specification Revision 2.0 and is compliant with UHCI 1.1 and EHCI 0.95.
It has two 32-bit PCI slots, one 8X AGP slot, one CNR (Communications and
Networking Riser) slot, and supports the onboard 10BaseT/100BaseTX
Network interface (optional). In addition, this motherboard has a full set of I/O
ports including two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard, one serial port, one
VGA port, one parallel port, one LAN port (optional), three audio jacks for line-
in, line-out and microphone, and four back-panel USB2.0 ports. Two onboard
USB headers provide additional USB2.0 ports by connecting the Extended USB
Module to the motherboard.
This motherboard is a Micro ATX size motherboard and has power connectors
for an ATX power supply.

Key Features

The key features of this motherboard include:
Processor Support
Supports AMD Geode NX processor onboard
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Supports up to 266 MHz Front-Side Bus
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Chipset
There are SiS741GX Northbridge and SiS964L Southbridge in this chipset in
accordance with an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability
and performance.
Supports 333/266 DDR SDRAM and high performance unified memory
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controller optimizing the DRAM bus utilization
• Supports AGP 8X/4X Interface w/ Fast Write Transaction
Built-in a high performance 256-bit 3D engine and 32-bit floating point
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format VLIW triangle setup engine
Integrated Multi-threaded I/O link ensures concurrency of upstream/
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down stream data transfer with 1.2GB/s bandwidth
PCI 2.2 Specification Compliance
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Integrated Multithreaded IO Link Mastering
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Multithread I/O link Mastering with Read/Write Concurrent transaction
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