Introducing the motherboard, Introducing the motherboard chapter 1, Introduction – Elitegroup PMI8M (V2.0) User Manual

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Introducing the Motherboard

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing PMI8M motherboard of great performance and with en-
hanced function. This motherboard carries an ITX form factor of 170 x 170 mm.
PMI8M supports Socket 479 Pentium M and Celeron processors with system bus
speeds up to 400MHz.

The motherboard may support 855GME/852GM Northbridges and ICH4M
Southbridge.

855GME/852GM Northbridge is a single processor with a data transfer

rate of 400 MHz, DDR-SDRAM at 333/266/200 MHz operation

(852GM supports 266/200

MHz DDR SDRAM)

. It supports 128-Mb, 256-Mb and 512-Mb SDRAM technologies

providing maximum capacity of 1GB with X16 devices and up to 2GB with high
density 512-Mbit technology.

The ICH4M Southbridge on this motherboard supports one PCI slot which is PCI 2.2
compliant. It implements an EHCI compliant host controller that supports USB
high-speed signaling, integrates AC’97 v2.3 compliant controller that features a 6-
channel audio speaker out. It provides dual independent IDE channels support
UltraDMA 100/66/33.

There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, three serial ports, VGA port, and four USB ports, two LAN
ports (LAN2 optional), and audio jacks for microphone and line-out.

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