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Another MOBO I need help with...

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Posted by: pokerplayer1

This is a Chaintech, I need to know what is the fastest CPU and Harddrive specs I can have for this mobo based on these specs:

THANKS!

❒ Processor
- Supports AMD Socket A processors
- 100MHz DDR (Double Data Rate) transfer on K7 CPU address and data buses
- High efficiency switching power modules provides 1.6v for Vcc and up to
40A for Icc
❒ Chipset
- VIA Apollo KT133 (VT8363/686A) or (VT8363/686B support ATA 100)
two chip AGPset
❒ DRAM Memory
- Three 3.3V 168-pin DIMM sockets support up to 1.5GB
- Supports PC-100, PC-133 SDRAM
- Provides single-bit ECC capability
❒ Expansion Slots
- One AMR slot (Rev 1.0 compliant) for cost effective soft modem riser
- One 32-bit AGP slot for both 2x/4xAGP at 3.3v or 1.5v (Rev 2.0 compliant)
- Five 32-bit PCI slots (Rev 2.2 compliant)
- Optional One 16-bit ISA slot (with sharing slot)
❒ 2Mb Boot-Block Flash ROM
- Award System BIOS, supports PnP, APM, DMI, ACPI & Multi-device
booting features i.e. floppy, LS120, CD-ROM, HDD(IDE, SCSI), ZIP-ATAPI
etc.
- Includes Trend ChipAway Virus protection for virus-free boot and virus
free operating system
- BIOS Wonder technology including ChipAway Virus, Flash BIOS Write
Protect, Embedded Flash Utility, Built-in HDD Instant Recovery utility
- Optional TwinBIOS technology for security and management.
❒ Embedded Ultra DMA PCI IDE controller
- Supports two IDE ports up to 4 ATAPI devices
- Supports up to PIO Mode 4 up to 16.6MBps, Multi Word Mode 4 up to
66MBps with bus mastering
- Bus Master software drivers for all common multi-task operating systems
- Optional VIA 686B ATA-100 support up to Multi Word Mode 5
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Chapter 1
❒ Embedded Super I/O Functions
- Two UARTs support two serial ports and IR function for HPSIR and ASKIR
- One parallel supports SPP/ECP/EPP
- One floppy disk drive connector supports up to 2.88MB, Japanese 3- Mode
and 1Mbps transfer rate
- Supports Game/MIDI port for soft-audio
❒ Double Stack Back-Panel I/O Connectors with PC99 Colored Codes
- PS/2 Mini-DIN keyboard and mouse ports
- Two Channel USB ports
- Two D-SUB 9-pin male serial port
- One D-SUB 25-pin female Printer port
- One D-SUB 15-pin female Game/MIDI port
- Audio Line-out, Line-in, Mic-in jacks
❒ Embedded PCI Audio Subsystem
- Built-in Sample Rate Converter to ensure all internal operation at 48KHz
- Full-duplex operation for simultaneous recording and playback
- Built-in FM-emulation music synthesizer
- With external high quality AC`97 ..CODEC provides 90dB+ SNR CD quality
audio
- Using wavetable data on the system memory
- Hardware SoundBlaster Pro for Windows DOS box and real-mode DOS legacy
compatibility
- Complete software driver support for Win95/98/NT
❒ Optional PCI Audio Subsystem
- CMedia 8738 audio chip w/ legacy audio SB16/Pro compatible
- Advanced 64-Voice Wavetable synthesizer
- Programmable independent sample rate from 4KHz to 48KHz for recording and
playback
- Full-duplex operation for simultaneous recording and playback
- Supports MS DLS (Downloadable sample) level-1 technology with limitless
variety of instrument samples using PC RAM
- Up to 8MB wavedata provides 128 GM, GS and WT-32 compatible instruments
and 10 drum kits
- Supports HRTF 3D positional audio with MSDS, DS3D, DirectMusic, Aureal A3D
and Creative EAX (Environment Audio Extensions) APIs
- 4-Channel speaker audio support is easy to build up a Home Theater environment
- Optional supports 24-bit S/PDIF-in/out for digital audio (i.e. compressed
AC3 data)
- Supports Fiber Optic module for Internet music, PC, and MD connections
- Supports MIDI and dual game ports
- Embedded 32OHM .5w earphone amplifier
3
Introduction
❒ Optional Embedded Graphic Accelerator
- Integrated 128-bit S3 Savage4 2D/3D graphics engine
- Floating point triangle setup engine w/ 8 MTps setup engine and 140MPps
trilinear fill rate
- Optimized Shared Memory Architecture (SMA) supports 2 to 32MB frame
buffer using system memory
- Supports AGP 4x, including sideband addressing and execute mode
- Supports up to 1920x1440 resolution
- Motion Video compensation for full speed DVD playback
- With TV encoder or TMDS Transmitter, to support DFP monitor and NTSC/
PAL TV
- Supports 12-bit digital interface with up t o1280x1024 resolution DFP
❒ Embedded USB Controller
- USB host controller (UHCI v1.0 compliant) with Root Hub
- Four USB ports with over-current protection
* Optional USB riser with 2 additional USB ports
❒ Embedded System Monitoring Hardware Subsystem
- 5 external voltage inputs for CPU VDD, Vcc, +12v, +5v and 3.3v (internal
detecting)
- 2 temperature sensor with thermistor for CPU & System
- 2 Fan speed (CPU and System) monitoring and control with ON/OFF control
in suspend
❒ Board Dimensions
- Standard ATX form factor, 305mm x 220mm, 4 Layers
4
Chapter 1
❒ Switching Power Supply Requirement
3.3Vat 15Amps is necessary to guarantee full loading operation
because some AGP cards and memory modules have high current
consumption.
1-2 Product Feature
- Innovative SeePU technology for jumperless CPU installation
- Superior Overclocking capability with up to 150MHz frequency
- Complete CPU protection with OVT (Over Voltage Protect) and OCP (Over
Current Protect) technology
- Complete Data Security:
* Flash BIOS write protection against unauthorized access
* Trend ChipAway Virus for a 100% virus free system boot-up
* Embbeded Flash Utility to ease BIOS upgrade and eliminate in
compatibility with the flash utility version.
* Embedded HDD Instant Recovery to protect against system crash.
- Advanced Management Features:
* Power-on events:
WOL(Wake-on-LAN) network card, Modem ring, RTC Alarm
* Software power-off control for Win95
* Over-ride power button
* Three states advanced Power-failure recovery: Always On, Always Off, Last
state
* Chassis intrusion detection with mnemonics during power loss
* Blinking Power-LED in suspend
Table 1-1
Output Voltage Max. Regulation
Requirement
Min. Current
Requirement (Amps)
+12V +/- 5% 5.5
+5V +/- 5% 20
+3.3V +/- 5% 15
-5V +/- 10% 0.5
-12V +/- 10% 0.5
+5VSB +/- 5% 0.75
5
Introduction
1-3 Package Contents
This product comes with the following components:
❒ One mainboard
❒ One 40-pin(80-wire) UDMA-66/100 IDE connector ribbon cable (Figure 1-1)
* Color coded connection for UDMA-66/100 cable
Blue to mainboard, Gray to Master and Black to slave
❒ One 34-pin floppy disk drive ribbon cable (Figure 1-2)
❒ One User's Manual
❒ One CD-ROM that includes
-- Acrobat Reader
- Award Flash EPROM Utility
- Award DMI Utility for DOS
- VIA Service Pack for Win9x/WinNT including Bus Master IDE drivers,
AGP VxD and etc.
- VIA Sound Driver for DOS/Win95/98/NT
- Optional S3 AGP Driver for Win95/98/NT
- CMedia audio drivers for Win3.1, Win95/98/2000, NT4.0 and Linux
- CMedia Multimedia Decks
- Optional Value Pack 2001 software group including Norton AntiVirus,
AutoSave, ADOBE ActiveShare, Acrobat Reader, Imagemore, X-stop,
Appio and Ewalla.
Figure 1-2 Standard Floppy cable
Figure 1-1 UDMA-66/100 IDE cable
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Posted by: kestrel1

It would be better to just give the model number of the mobo.



Posted by: pokerplayer1

Where is the model number located?



Posted by: kestrel1

On the mobo somewhere. Normally this is between the PCI slots, but could be different on your model.



 
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