Chapter 1 Introduction; Main Board Overview - VIA Technologies VT82C694X Pro User Manual

Chapter 1

1-1 Main Board Overview

The main board is a new-generation INTEL Celeron/FC-PGA Pentium
MIII main board designed based on VIA VT82C694X chipset. The main board
has integrated the latest advances in processor, memory, I/O technologies into an
ATX form factor.
The main board utilizes VIA 694X chipset designed for INTEL Celeron/FC-PGA
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Pentium III；Cyrix MIII CPUs and supports new architects such as high-speed
2X/4X mode AGP graphic port, SDRAM, Ultra DMA/66, bus master IDE and
USB port. It has three Dual In-line Memory Modules (DIMM) which can be
installed with SDRAM memory. The memory subsystem supports up to either 384
MB (SDRAM). The main board using the Socket370, accepts Intel
II/III(100/133 MHz) processors. Built-in second level (L2) cache in CPU, there is
no cache necessary in this system board.
The main board also has implemented VIA VT82C686A high performance I/O
Controller utilizes with fully Plug and Play device which supports 2.88 MB
Floppy, Dual 16550 Compatible (with 16 bytes FIFO, up to 460K baud rate)
Serial Port, ECP (Enhanced Capabilities Port), EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port)
parallel port, Infrared IrDA (HPSIR), Amplitude Shift Keyed IR. (ASKIR) port
and Audio.
The main board supports 5*PCI, 1*A.G.P and 1*AMR. (four PCI Bus Mastering
slots & 1 PCI Bus Slave slot) for highest performance I/O add-on adapter cards.
VIA694X System Board
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