Nvidia 400 - Manual (Page 8)

Introduction
Page 1-2
1-2 Mainboard Features
Brief Introduction
Athlon TM Processor
The AMD Athlon TM is a seventh-generation micro architecture with an integrated
L2 cache, which is powerful enough to support the bandwidth requirements of a
large range of applications, hardware, graphics, and memory technologies.
For more information about all the new features Athlon TM Processor deliver, check out
the AMD website at http://www.amd.com
Chipset
This board is designed with nVidia chipset, nForce2 TM Ultra 400 as North Bridge
and nForce2 TM RAID MCP as South Bridge, The nForce2 Ultra 400 delivers twice
the bandwidth by implementing the new NVIDIA DualDDR™ Memory Architec-
ture speed to DDR 400 memories. This generation System Platform Processor
also implements the AGP 8X interface, HyperTransport Link, and is fully
compliant with industry standard power management specifications such as
ACPI 2.0 and PCI Power Management Interface (PMI) Spec 1.1.
For more details about the NVIDIA nForce2 MCPs, please visit the NVIDIA Web
site at http://www.nvidia.com.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
The AGP slot on the board is compliant with the new AGP 3.0 specification. This
new specification enhances the functionality of the original AGP specification
by allowing 8X data transfers ( 8 data samples per clock) resulting in maximum
bandwidth of 2.1GB/s. Only 1.5V AGP cards are supported.
Ultra ATA100/133
The mainboard provides an Ultra ATA100/133 Bus Master IDE controller. This
controller supports Ultra ATA100/133 protocols which are ideal to support
demanding applications such as real-time video, multimedia, and a high perfor-
mance operating system. A new IDE cable is required for Ultra ATA100/133.
Hardware Monitoring
Hardware monitoring enables you to monitor various aspects of the system
operation and status. This includes CPU temperature, voltage and fan speed in
RPMs.