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Introduction
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ATX Power Supply Connector
The system board is equipped with an ATX power supply connector.
Using an ATX power supply, you can either shut down your com-
puter by pressing the Power button located on the front bezel of
your computer or by executing the Shut Down command under the
Windows
95 operating system.Your system will then enter the Soft
Off state.
To power-on your system automatically, enable Resume By Alarm in
the Power Management Setup of the Award BIOS (Chapter 3). This
will allow you to set the date and time you would like your system
to power-on.
1.1.2 Technology
AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port)
The system board is equipped with 1 AGP slot. AGP is an interface
designed to support high performance 3D graphics cards. It utilizes a
dedicated pipeline to access system memory for texturing, z-buffering
and alpha blending; delivering up to 533MB/sec. bandwidth for 3D
graphics applications. AGP in this Pentium
II processor based system
board will deliver faster and better graphics with your PC.
SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory)
The system board supports unbuffered SDRAM memory. SDRAM is
a DRAM technology that uses the clock on the chip to synchronize
with the CPU clock so that the timing of the memory chips and the
timing of the CPU are synchronized. This saves time during
transmission of data, subsequently increasing system performance.
Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master IDE
Synchronous Ultra DMA mode provides data transfer rate up to a
maximum of 33MB/sec, which is twice the data transfer rate of
Enhanced IDE or ATA-2. This enables the CPU to operate more
efficiently when handling simultaneous events.
