Specifications

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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the P4M800PRO-M motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports LGA775 Pentium 4/Celeron
D/Pentium D processors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the P4M800PRO Northbridge (NB) and VT8237 Southbridge
(SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 1066/ 800/533
MHz FSB and Hyper-Threading technology. The memory controller supports DDR memory
DIMM frequencies of 400/333/266 MHz or DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies of 533/400
MHz. It supports four DDR Sockets with up to maximum memory of 2 GB. Aside from the
integrated UniChrome Pro 3D/2D Graphics & Video Controller, one AGP 8X/4X slot
provides users with high-performance along with superior image and video quality.
The VT8237 Southbridge is a highly integrated peripheral controller, it includes an inte-
grated keyboard controller with PS2 mouse support, two-channel Serial ATA/RAID hard
disk controller, master mode enhanced Parallel IDE controller with full scatter/gather
capability and extension to UltraDMA-133/100/66 for 133/100/66 MB/sec transfer rate,
integrated USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to eight functional ports, and OnNow/ACPI
compliant advanced configuration and power management interface. The VT8237 inte-
grated networking MAC controller with standard MII interface to an external PHY for 100/
10/1Mb Base-T Ethernet.
This motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including
PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, COM1, LPT1, one VGA port, four USB ports, one
optional LAN port, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line out.