User`s manual

Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 1
Introduction
1-1 Overview
The SUPER P6DGS/P6DGE/P6DGU/P6SGU supports Pentium II 233-333 MHz
processors at a 66MHz bus speed and Pentium II/III 350-700 MHz proces-
sors at a 100MHz bus speed. The SUPER P6DGU/P6DGS/P6DGE supports
single or dual Pentium II/III processors and the SUPER P6SGU supports a
single Pentium II/III processor. All four motherboards are based on Intel’s
440GX chipset, which enables 66/100 MHz system bus speed, Accelerated
Graphics Port (AGP), Wake-on-LANÔ , SDRAM, concurrent PCI and Ultra
DMA/33 for a 33 MB/s burst transfer rate.
While all of the motherboards are the ATX form factor, the P6DGU and
P6DGE have 5 PCI and 2 ISA slots with one slot shared. The SUPER P6DGS
and P6SGU have 4 PCI and 3 ISA slots with one slot shared. All four
motherboards have the AGP port, and can accommodate 2 GB unbuffered
SDRAM or registered SDRAM memory in 4 168-pin DIMM sockets. All also
support ECC or non-ECC memory.
AGP reduces contention between the CPU and I/O devices by broadening
the bandwidth of graphics to memory. It delivers a maximum of 532 MB/s
2xAGP transfer mode, which is quadruple the PCI speed!
Wake-on-LAN enables remote network management and configuration of
the PC, even in off-hours when the PC is turned off. This reduces the
complexity of managing the network.
Other features that maximize customer satisfaction and simplicity in manag-
ing the computer are PC 98-ready and support for Advanced Configuration
and Power Interface (ACPI).
Included I/O on all motherboards are 2 EIDE ports, a floppy port, an ECP/EPP
parallel port, a PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard, 2 serial ports, an infrared port
and 2 USB ports. The SUPER P6DGU and P6SGU provide an onboard Adaptec
7890 Ultra2 SCSI controller with a data transfer rate of up to 80 MB/s, and
optional RAID III (ARO-1130U2). The SUPER P6DGS has an integrated
onboard Adaptec 7895 MultiChannel UW SCSI controller. The dual channels
allow a data transfer rate of 40 MB/s per channel. Additionally, this moth-
erboard has an onboard RAIDport to support the Adaptec ARO-1130SA/CA
RAIDport II card for increased I/O performance and fault tolerance.