Chapter 1 Introduction - ECS Motherboard User Manual

Motherboard User's Guide

Chapter 1 Introduction

This motherboard has a Socket-754 processor socket for the
newest and advanced AMD Athlon 64/Sempron processors with
Front-Side Bus (FSB) speeds up to 800 MHz and system bus to
1600 MT/s.
Based on the ATX form facotr, the motherboard incorporates the
SiS755 Northbridge and SiS964 Southbridge chipsets. The SiS755
Northbridge features the HyperTransport compliant bus driver
TM
technology to support AMD Athlon 64/Sempron processors up to
1600MT/s data rate. It also supports external AGP slot with AGP
4X/8X capability and Fast Write Transactions. The
" HyperTransport " technology is designed to increase the
TM
communication speed between integrated circuits in computers up
to 48 times faster, helps reduce the number of buses in a system
and reduce the system bottlenecks.
The SiS964 Southbridge integrated Serial ATA Host Controller
compliant with SATA 1.0 specification which supports 1.5Gb/s
bandwidth for each serial port and support IDE channels support-
ing PIO mode 0,1,2,3,4 and Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33.
This high performance motherboard is intended to give customers
a high quality and rich multimedia solution. It provides a complete
set of I/O ports, such as dual SATA interfaces, a floppy controller,
a high-speed serial port, an EPP/ECP capable bi-directional
parallel port connector, eight USB headers (four back-panel ports,
onboard USB headers, USB2/3 providing four extra ports),
LAN(optional), a PS/2 keyboard and mouse connector, and audio
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