CPU

• Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 and Sempron processor (Socket 754)
• Supports up to 3700+ Athlon 64, or higher CPU

Chipset

• NVIDIA® nForce3 250 Chipset
- Supports Athlon™ 64 processor (Socket 754), 800MHz Hypertransport interface.
- Supports single memory channels, DDR 400/333/266 without ECC support.
- Supports external AGP 4X/8X
- Integrated Serial ATA interface and dual channel ATA 133/100 master mode EIDE controller.
- Supports 8 high speed USB2.0 ports.
- AC'97 2.3 compliance.

Main Memory

• Supports 2 slots for 184-pin DDR DRAM DIMM modules.
• Supports DDR 400/333/266.
• Supports memory size up to 2GB without ECC.

Slots

• One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) 1.5V 4X/8X slot
• Five 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface).

On-Board IDE/SATA

• An IDE controller on the NVIDIA nForce3 250 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO,
Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices.

• Integrated SATA, supporting up to 2 ports.
- Up to 150MB/s transfer rate.
- One SATA controller, supporting 2 drives in master mode.

NV RAID (Software)
• Supports 2 serial ATA + 4 ATA 133
- RAID 0 or 1, 0+1, JBOD is supported
- Booting from RAID
- Cross controller RAID support
- Rebuilding on the fly
- Spare Disk Allocation
• Supports Windows 2000 and later versions

Audio

• 5.1 channel audio codec RealTek ALC655.
- Compliance with AC97 v2.3 Spec.
- Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement.

LAN

• Realtek® 8100C
- Supports 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s auto-negotiation operation.
- Compliant with PCI v2.2.
- Supports ACPI Power Management.

Internal I/O Connectors

- ATX 20-Pin power connector
- 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
- CPU / System x 2 / Chipset FAN connectors
- Serial port header (COM2)
- CD-in connector
- Clear CMOS jumper
- IrDA infrared module header
- Chassis intrusion switch connector
- 1 x Floppy disk drive connector
- 2 x Serial ATA connectors
- 2 x ATA133 IDE drive connectors
- 2 x USB 2.0 connectors support additional 4 ports
- Front panel audio connector
- Front panel connector

Back Panel I/O Ports

- 1 x Parallel
- 1 x Serial port (COM 1)
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse
- 1 x 3 in 1 Audio jack (Line-in/Line-out/MIC)
- 4 x USB 2.0
- 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack

BIOS

• The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and
expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your
mainboard specifications.