Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - SCE K8T800Pro-A User Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing K8T800Pro-A motherboard of great performance and with en-
hanced function. The K8T800Pro-A is designed to fit the AMD K8 processors in the 939-
pin package. Based on the ATX form factor, measuring 305 mm x 244 mm, this motherboard
incorporates the following chipsets: K8T800Pro Northbridge and VT8237 Southbridge
chipsets.
The K8T800Pro Northbridge features the HyperTransport Technology to transfer of
2000(overclocking)/1600 MT/s, 1200 MT/s, 800 MT/s or 400 MT/s each direction simul-
taneously, providing a total maximum data transfer bandwidth of 8 GB/sec. Four 184 pin
unbuffered DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets support up to 4 GB in total memory. The AGP
controller is AGP v3.0 compliant 8X/4X transfer mode with up to 2.1 GB/sec data transfer
rate. The K8T800Pro Northbridge interconnects to the South Bridge through the high
speed 8X 66 MHz (533 MB/sec) V-Link interface.
The VT8237 Southbridge is a highly integrated peripheral controller, it includes an inte-
grated keyboard controller with PS2 mouse support, two-channel Serial ATA/RAID hard
disk controller, master mode enhanced Parallel IDE controller with full scatter/gather
capability and extension to UltraDMA-133/100/66 for 133/100/66 MB/sec transfer rate,
integrated USB 2.0 interface supporting up to 8 USB 2.0 ports. The VT8237 features
outstanding expansion capibility such as, five PCI slots with PCI v2.2 compliant. The
VT8237 integrated Fast Ethernet controller with standard MII interface to an external
PHY for 10/100Mb Base-T Ethernet, as well as AC'97 audio codec compliant.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, COM1, LPT1, four USB ports at the rear I/O, one LAN port (op-
tional), and audio jacks for microphone, line-in, and line-out.
Introducing the Motherboard