Operation Manual

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The main function of AGP simply put is to tell monitor what screen information had to be shown, a visual transmission device actually.
With the rapid developing of AGP card, we can see that it had been developed from single colorful AGP card to 2D and 3D graphic. AGP
supports only memory read/write operation and single-master single-slave one-to-one only. Though AGP and PCI share the same
algorithm of 32-bit, its frequencies are 66MHz and 33MHz respectively. AGP interface had been developed from 2X to 8x.
1X AGP, data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4byte x 1 = 264MB/s
2X AGP, data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4byte x 2 = 528MB/s
4X AGP, data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4byte x 4 = 1056MB/s.
8X AGP, data transfer rate is 66MHz x 4byte x 8 = 2112MB/s.
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The CODEC circuit of AC’97 sound/modem solution can be put on motherboard or put on a riser card (AMR card) that connects to
motherboard through AMR connector.
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Before talking about ATA (AT Attachment), we must understand DMA (Direct Memory Access), which allows devices to skip the CPU
devices and access memory directly. DMA specification could not only eliminate the workload of CPU, but also accelerate the
transmission of data. DMA begins with a data transfer rate of 16.6MB/Sec, but afterward developed to new data rate of 33.3MB/Sec,
which is twice the data rate and we called it Ultra DMA. ATA details power and data signals between the drive and integrated drive
controller and the computer's motherboard. Two drives (master and slave) are supported. The ATA specification allows the drive to
connect directly to the ISA bus on the computer. ATA transfer rate then had been developed to 133MHz/Sec and would come out with
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Serial ATA
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DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz/s
Ultra DMA, data transfer rate is 16.6MHz x 2 = 33MB/s.