Asus CUW-FX CUW-FX User Manual - Page 8

2. FEATURES Specifications 2. FEATURES 2.1 The ASUS CUW(E)-FX Motherboard The CUW(E)-FX motherboard from ASUS is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants many smart features in a small package. So what's so smart about the ASUS CUW(E)-FX motherboard? 2.1.1 Specifications • Latest Intel Socket 370 Processor Support! Supports Intel's Pentium® III Coppermine and Celeron™ Mendocino processors. • Form Factor for Easy-to-Use PC! Designed for small-size easy-to-use PCs. This new highly flexible form factor reduces the motherboard size by as much as 25% over the microATX design. • Latest Intel 810 Series Chipset! Features Intel's 810 Series chipset with the Accelerated Hub Architecture, which provides direct connections between the 810 chipset and subsystems such as IDE controllers, USB controllers, and PCI add-on cards. • Integrated Graphics! The 24-bit 230MHz RAMDAC graphics controller supports 3D hyper pipelined architecture, parallel data processing and compression, precise pixel interpolation, full 2D hardware acceleration, and motion video acceleration. The CUWE-FX comes with 4MB 32-bit 133MHz SDRAM display cache onboard, and the CUW-FX comes with optional 4MB 100MHz SDRAM display cache. • ASUS Graphics Driver! You can gain about 12% performance over that of the standard graphics driver (2D high-end graphics WinMark) using ASUS' custom graphics driver. ASUS custom graphics driver also provides more features and provides selection of higher refresh rates and resolutions. • 3D Positional Audio! Brings new levels of realism to games with sounds being positioned interactively around the user, making them truly part of the 3D virtual experience. Better music reproduction is possible with MIDI utilizing Wavetable synthesis. • Versatile Memory Support! DRAM controller supports asymmetrical addressing and two DIMM sockets support Intel PC100-compliant SDRAMs (16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) up to 512MB. (supports a maximum of 4 sides) • JumperFree™! Allows processor settings and easy overclocking of frequency and Vcore voltage all through BIOS setup. • Legacy Free! Provides one 32-bit PCI (rev 2.2) expansion slot with no ISA, eliminating bottlenecks and system memory management issues. PCI supports up to 133MB/s maximum throughput. Each PCI slot can support a Bus Master PCI card (such as SCSI or LAN cards). • Latest Low Pin Count Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. • Integrated IDE! Controller supports UltraDMA/66 up to 66MB/s, UltraDMA/ 33 up to 33MB/s, and PIO Mode 4 up to 17MB/s. • Peripheral Wake-Up! Supports Wake-On-LAN, Wake-On-Ring, Keyboard Wake-Up, and BIOS Wake-Up. 8 ASUS CUW(E)-FX User's Manual