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Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard has a Socket AM2 supporting the newest and advanced
AM2
AMD Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon 64/Sempron
CPUs
with HyperTransport Technology processors, Front-Side Bus (FSB)
speeds up to 1000 MHz.
This motherboard is based on MCP61 Value/MCP61 Standard media and
communications processor that supports the Serial ATA interface for high-
performance and mainstream desktop PCs, and the built-in USB 2.0 provid-
ing higher bandwidth. It implements Universal Serial Bus Specification
Revision 2.0.
It supports 6-channel High Definition Audio Codec and provides one IDE
Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 channel. It has two 32-bit PCI slots, one Ultra
PCI Express slot and one PCI Express x1 slot, and supports the onboard
10Base-T/100Base-TX 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 parallel port, one LAN port (optional),
one VGA port, four back-panel USB2.0 ports, and three audio jacks for
microphone, line-in and line-out. Onboard USB header(s) can provide extra
ports by connecting the Extended USB Module to the motherboard.
This motherboard is a micro-ATX size motherboard and has power connec-
tors for an ATX power supply.
Key Features
The key features of this motherboard include:
Socket-AM2 Processor Support
Supports AM2
AMD Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core/
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Athlon 64/Sempron
Supports Front-Side Bus 1000 MHz
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Note: HyperTransport Technology is a point-to-point link between two
devices, it enables integrated circuits to exchange information at
much higher speeds than currently available interconnect
technologies.
Chipset
There is a single chip "NVIDIA nForce® MCP61 Value/MCP Standard
media ", in this chipset in accordance with an innovative and scalable archi-
tecture with proven reliability and performance.
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HyperTransport link up to 1.0 GHz to the CPU
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DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3.0 graphics processing unit
Motherboard User's Guide
processors
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