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Your motherboard's limitations are
dictated by the chipset that is running on it. All of our primary
motherboards carry an Intel chipset, so we will provide a
run-down on th erecent history of Intel chipsets.
Intel 440BX AGP Chipset - 66/100 MHz Front
Side Bus
Intel's
BX chipset is the first PC chipset that is offering a front side
bus that runs at 100 MHz and therefore enables a higher memory
bandwidth as the common 66 MHz FSB used to.
Intel® 440BX AGPset
Highlights:
- Optimizes Pentium II
processor 350-600-MHz performance by enabling 100-MHz
SDRAM and memory.
- Supports both 100-MHz or
66-MHz system and memory bus designs.
- Quad Port Acceleration
improves system performance.
- Enables
"best-of-class" 3D and multimedia and gaming
platforms with the Intel740™ accelerator-based
graphics card.
- ACPI-compliant power
manageability.
- Supports Wired for Management
capabilities in desktop and mobile platforms.
- The first chip set to support
the Mobile Intel Pentium II processor.
- Ultra DMA/33 improves access
to all IDE devices
- USB enables instant
connectivity to peripherals.
Intel 440LX AGP Chipset -
66 MHz Front Side Bus
Intel's LX chipset was designed to
fix a lot of Pentium II problems.
Today's Intel®
440LX AGPset Highlights:
- High-volume, high-quality
platform.
- Accelerated Graphics Port
(AGP) improves overall system bandwidth for superior 3D
graphics and video performance.
- SDRAM support enables faster
memory reads and writes and supports faster data
streaming between the Pentium II processor and graphics
controller.
- Dynamic Power Management
Architecture (DPMA) enables enhanced power management and
fast resume
- Ultra DMA/33 improves access
to all IDE devices
- USB enables instant
connectivity to peripherals.
Intel 440EX AGP Chipset -
66 MHz Front Side Bus
The EX chipset was
designed to provide a low cost Slot 1 alternative. The idea being
that a low cost mainboard teamed with the Intel Celeron© CPU
would help to move people away from socket 7.
Intel® 440EX
AGPset Highlights:
- Cost optimization with tuned
feature set for Basic PC market segment.
- Optimizes the performance of
Celeron processor-based Basic PCs.
- Enables design of Net PCs
with Celeron processor performance.
- Brings AGP functionality and
multimedia computing capability for today's graphics and
video applications.
- ACPI-compliance enables
enhanced power manageability.
- Micro ATX motherboard form
factor for cost-effective production.
- Ultra DMA/33 supports
high-speed disk drives.
- Support for 66-MHz SDRAM
enhances graphics and video performance.
- USB enables instant
connectivity to peripherals.
Intel® 430TX PCIset: 82439TX
System Controller
The TX chipset is the
All-inclusive final solution for the Socket 7 board. There will
be no other Socket 7 chipsets from Intel.
Intel® 430TX
PCIset Highlights:
- Designed for MMX based CPU's,
Supports all Pentium class CPU's
- Optimizes PCI bus for high
speed video and memory access
- Ultra DMA/33 supports
high-speed disk drives.
- Support for 66-MHz SDRAM
enhances graphics and video performance.
- USB enables instant
connectivity to peripherals.
