Chapter 1 Overview - FIC K8M-800T/M Manual

Overview
Chapter 1
Overview
This new Mainboard is a microATX sized board supporting the latest genera-
tion of AMD™ processors at FSB 800MHz. Memory is up to DDR400 MHz
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and has 2 DDR SDRAM DIMMs fo r up to 2 GBs. This board provides users
with an ATA133 data transaction for peripheral IDE drives .
This board is based upon the high performance VIA K8T800™ (K8M-800T)/
K8M800™ (K8M-800M )/ as its North Bridg e and t he VIA VT8237™ as its
South Bridge. It s AGP functions suppo rted AGP 3.0 interface and th e most
robust 3D games with software environments.
The board features onbo ard au dio and LAN functio n; also , the serial ATA
feature replaces the standard parallel ATA physical storage interface and al-
lows future enhancements to t he compu ting platform. It is completely soft-
ware compatible wit h parallel ATA, requiring no modificat ion to your operat-
ing system. For more details, please read the help file in the lst Utilities CD.
This mainboard comes with a versatile range of I/O features such as serial port
(s) and/or 1 CRT p ort, (K8M-800T: 2 COM ports, no CRT port; K8M-800M: 1
COM port + 1 CRT port), 1 parallel port, 1 LAN, 2 optional IEEE 1394, 1 PS/2
mous e and keyboard connector, 8 USB ports, and 1 media conn ector (front
audio, Line-in, Line-out and Mic-in). In addition, the board is equipped with 2
dual channel enhan ced PCI bus master IDE connectors. Ample expans ion is
available through 3 PCI and 1AGP allow for enjoyment of the CPU's benefits
wth internet applicatons, video/3D graphics performance, and so forth.
Oth er key featu res are Remo te On/ Off, A uto Po wer Failure Recovery, in te-
grated temperature monitoring and system fan control. Also, included are a lst
Utilities CD with enhanced drivers and a few bundled soft-ware solutions.
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