Features

Specifications from Sapphire

Chipset

• ATI RD480 x SB450 Chipset

Processor

• Support for AMD K8 Processor in Socket939 package
• Support Hypertransport Interface bus

VRM (Voltage Regulator Modules) on Board

• Flexible motherboard design with on board VRM, easy to upgrade with future AMD K8 processors
• 0.800V to 1.55V in 25 mV steps

System Memory

• A total of four 184-pin DDR RAM sockets
• DIMM size support from 64MB to 2GB
• Support of dual channel 128-bit wide memory interface
• Support of 266/333/400 DDR RAM memory type

System BIOS

• PnP, APM, ATAPI and Windows 2000/XP
• Full support of ACPI & DMI
• Auto detects and supports LBA harddisks with capacities over 160GB
• Easy to upgrade BIOS

Plug and Play

• Supports Plug and Play specification 1.1
• Plug and Play for Windows 2000 and XP
• Fully assignable PCI interrupts

Onboard I/O

• Onboard two PCI fast IDE ports supporting up to four ATA, ATA2, Ultra ATA33/66/100/133 IDE HDDs, CD-Roms, ZIP drives and LS-120 drives as boot drive
• One floppy port supports two FDD of 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB and 2.88MB capacity
• Eight USB ports (four ports via two headers)
• PS/2 keyboard connector
• PS/2 mouse connector
• One front panel sound connector

Extended USB Support

• Includes 2 OHCI host controllers, increasing the number of external ports to eight
• Includes 1 OHCI USB2.0 host controller that supports all eight ports (Bandwidth shared between eight ports)
• This motherboard supports USB 2.0 feature only on Windows 2000 (with SP4 or above) and XP (with SP1 or above) OS.

Onboard Marvell 88E8052 PCI Express Gigabit LAN

• Full compliance with IEEE 802.3u 100 Base-T specifications and IEEE 802.3X Full Duplex Flow Control
• Supports 10 Mb/s, 100 Mb/s and 1000 Mb/s operation
• Supports Wake-On-LAN function and remote wake-up

PCI Express x16 Graphics Interface

• Two 16-lane (x16 port) PCI Express port intended for external graphics
• ATI CrossFire Dual Graphic Card Supported
• Full compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification Revision 11.0a
• The base PCI Express frequency of this interface is 4 GB/s
• PCI Express supports an enhanced addressing mechanism
• An optional ADD2 card can utilize PCI Express Graphics x16 connection

Power Management

• Supports SMM, APM and ACPI
• Break switch for instant suspend/resume on system operations
• Energy star "Green PC" compliant
• Hardware monitoring circuit is supported, provide voltage, fan speed etc. monitoring
• Wake-On-LAN (WOL) support
• Supports Suspend-To-RAM (STR)

Onboard ALC880 7.1 audio

• Integrated Realtek ALC880 controller
• Fully Sound and Sound Blaster compatible
• Full-Duplex 4 24-bit two-channel DACs and 3 stereo 20-bit ADCs
• PnP and APM 1.2 support
• Windows 2000/XP drivers ready
• Line-In, Line-out, Mic-in, SPDIF-in, SPDIF-out
• Supports ALC880 codec for eight channel sound output

Onboard IEEE1394

• Compliant with IEEE1394 OHCI specifications v1.0 and v1.1
• Integrated 400Mb 2-port PHY

Onboard Serial ATA Host Controller

• Independent DMA operation on four ports
• Data transfer rates of 150 MB/s
• RAID 0/1 feature support

Onboard Serial ATA-II Host Controller

• Independant DMA operation on four ports
• Data transfer rates of 300 MB/s
• RAID 0/1 feature support

Expansion Slots

• 2 PCI Express x16 slot
• 2 PCI slots - ver. 2.2 compliant