Chipset

VIA VT8377 and VT8235CD

CPU Socket

Socket A

CPU Supported

AMD Thoroughbred 0.13 core (1700+ to 2200+)

AMD Athlon XP 266MHz FSB (1500+ to 2100+)

AMD Athlon 200/266MHz FSB (up to 1.4GHz)

AMD Duron 200MHz FSB (500MHz to 1.3GHz)

Memory

Supports up to 16GB memory (unbuffered DIMM)

Uses PC1600 (DDR200), PC2100 (DDR266), PC2700 (DDR333) or PC3200 (DDR400) DDR SDRAM DIMM, 2.5V type

PCI IDE

Supports ATA/33, ATA/66, ATA/100 and ATA/133 hard drives

UDMA Modes 3, 4, 5 and 6 Enhanced IDE (data transfer rate up to 133MB/sec.)

Rear Panel I/O Ports

4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports

1 RJ45 LAN port (optional)

2 DB-9 serial ports

1 DB-25 parallel port

1 PS/2 mouse port

1 PS/2 keyboard port

3 audio jacks: line-out, line-in and mic-in

I/O Connectors

1 connector for 2 additional external USB 2.0/1.1 ports

1 connector for 1 external game/MIDI port

1 connector for external line-out and mic-in jacks

2 internal audio connectors (AUX-in and CD-in)

1 4-channel audio output connector

1 S/PDIF-in/out connector

1 connector for IrDA connector

2 IDE connectors

1 floppy connector

1 ATX power supply connector

1 Wake-On-LAN connector

1 Wake-On-Ring connector

3 fan connectors for CPU, chassis and second chassis fans

Power Management

ACPI and OS Directed Power Management

Wake-On-Events include:

Wake-On-Ring

Wake-On-LAN

Hardware Monitor

Monitors CPU/system temperature

Monitors +12V/-12V/+5V/-5V/3.3V/CPU/VBAT(V)/5VSB(V) voltages

Monitors CPU/chassis fan speed

Automatic chassis fan on/off control

Expansion Slots

1 AGP slot that supports 8x/4x AGP

5 PCI slots (1 shared with CNR slot)

1 CNR slot

Audio Onboard

AC''''97 S/PDIF extension compliant codec

Supports Microsoft DirectSound/DirectSound 3D

AC''''97 supported with full duplex, independent sample rate converter for audio recording and playback

6-channel audio output

LAN Onboard (optional)

Uses VIA VT6103 Phy chip

Other Features

Suspend to RAM

BIOS

Award BIOS

2Mbit flash memory

Form Factors

4 layers, ATX form factor

30.5cm (12") x 24.5cm (9.64")