DFI G5C100-NR - Manual (Page 12)

Introduction
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S/PDIF is a standard audio file transfer format that
transfers digital audio signals to a device without
having to be converted first to an analog format. This prevents the
quality of the audio signal from degrading whenever it is converted
to analog. S/PDIF is usually found on digital audio equipment such as
a DAT machine or audio processing device. The S/PDIF connector on
the system board sends surround sound and 3D audio signal out-
puts to amplifiers and speakers and to digital recording devices like
CD recorders.
Serial ATA is a storage interface that is compliant
with SATA 1.0a specification. With speed of up to
3Gbps, it improves hard drive performance faster than the standard
parallel ATA whose data transfer rate is 100MB/s. The Intel chip
allows configuring RAID on Serial ATA drives. It supports RAID 0 and
RAID 1.
The Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit LAN chip supports
up to 1Gbps data transmission.
The system board is equipped with an IrDA connec-
tor for wireless connectivity between your computer
and peripheral devices. The IRDA (Infrared Data Association) specifi-
cation supports data transfers of 115K baud at a distance of 1
meter.
The system board supports USB 2.0 and USB 1.1
ports. USB 1.1 supports 12Mb/second bandwidth
while USB 2.0 supports 480Mb/second bandwidth providing a
marked improvement in device transfer speeds between your com-
puter and a wide range of simultaneously accessible external Plug
and Play peripherals.
This feature allows the system that is in the
Suspend mode or Soft Power Off mode to
wake-up/power-on to respond to calls coming from an external mo-
dem or respond to calls from a modem PCI card that uses the PCI
PME (Power Management Event) signal to remotely wake up the
PC.
Important:
The 5V_standby power source of your power supply must sup-
port
≥720mA.
USB
wake-on-ring
SERIAL ATA
irda
gigabit lan
S/PDIF