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Top Right Corner of the mainboard. From here we can see 5
PCI slots and 1 AGP Pro slot. The on board audio codec used is ADI 1985
6 channel. On the left of PCI Slot 5 is the WI-FI connector. WINBOND
W83627THF-A IO Controller chip is seen on the corner of the board. 3COM
3C940 Gigabit Ethernet is on board. It comes with a built in cable tester. |
The Socket 478 and the North Bridge. ICS
952607 is used for controlling the large range of FSB. (up to 400Mhz fsb
selectable) |
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2 SATA. 2 SATA RAID, 1 channel of IDE RAID,
VIA 6307 used to control 1394 on board (red port for external 1394
bracket). South Bridge controller ICH5. |
4 DIMM slots supporting up to 4GB of
DDR266/DDR333/DDR400 using 184pin unbuffered ECC DDR allowing up to
6.4GB/s data transfer rate. |
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Intel 875P North Bridge MCH provides CPU,
AGP, DDR, HUB interface. MCH manages the flow of information between the
interfaces. MCH provides the memory interface with 6.4GB/s bandwidth.The
MCH interconnects to south bridge ICH5 using Intel proprietary hub
interface. |
Intel ICH5 FW82801EB is the 5th Generation
that integrates I/O functions including 2 channel ATA 100, up to 8 USB
2.0/1.1, I/O APIC, LPC interface, AC92 2.3 interface, PCI 2.2 interface. |
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ICS 952607EF clock generator chip is used on
this board which allows a large range of FSB. |
3COM Gigabit Ethernet chipset - 3C940.
Bundled with the drivers are the cable tester and other network
diagnostics. |
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P4C800 provides a WI-FI slot for connecting to WI-FI
certified equipment for wireless networking. |
PS/2 Mouse, keyboard, Parallel port, S/PDIF out, Serial
port, 1394, 4 USB 2.0, 1 LAN, audio ports. |
