Overview, Processors – Acer Altos R300 User Manual

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Overview

The Altos R300 system is a PCI bus based processor system built on an
optimized baseboard. It comes with a single socket 478 processor slot
utilizing an Intel

®

Pentium

®

4

processor or Intel

®

Celeron processor

with the Server Works GC-SL core logic chipset consisting of three
distinct components: CMIC-SL, CIOBX2 and CSB5. The mainboard also
integrates two Broadcom BCM 5703 10/100/1000 Base-T Gigabit
Ethernet controllers solution for high performance network
applications reducing power consumption.

For expandability, the system includes two 64-bit/100 MHz PCI-X bus
slots and four DIMM slots that allow memory installation up to a
maximum capacity of 4 GB.

For connectivity, the mainboard provides two USB (Universal Serial Bus)
connectors, PS/2 interfaces for both mouse and keyboard, one UART
serial port, one monitor port and two LAN ports.

For media storage, Altos R300 supports one slim-type CD-ROM drive,
one slim-type floppy disk drive and a hard disk drive.

The system is fully compatible with Windows 2000 Server, SCO
OpenServer 5.0.6, Unixware 7.1.1, NetWare 6, and Red Hat Linux 8.

Processors

The Intel

®

Pentium

®

4

processor

implements a new scalable system bus

protocol. The system bus uses SST (Source-Synchronous Transfer) of
addresses and data to improve performance for servers or
workstations. With its on-die 512-KB level two (L2) cache implementing
the Advanced Transfer Cache Architecture, the Intel

®

Pentium

®

4

processor delivers higher performance than previous Pentium III
processors while maintaining binary compatibility with all previous
Intel

®

Architecture processors.

The mainboard supports FSB (front-side bus) speed up to 533 MHz.

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