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Features
The Sis 755FX Chipset
The SiS755FX, a HyperTransport™ to AGP/MuTIOL Bridge, integrates a high
performance HyperTransport™ interface for AMD Athlon™ 64FX processor family, AGP
interface, and SiS MuTIOL Technology, which connects with SiS964 MuTIOL® Media
IO.
The HyperTransport™ interface of SiS755FX features the HyperTransport™ complaint
bus driver technology to support AMD Athlon™ 64FX processors up to 2.0GT/s data
rate.
The AGP interface of SiS755FX can support external AGP slot with AGP 4X/8X
capability and Fast Write Transactions. SiS MuTIOL®, a high bandwidth and mature
technology, is incorporated to connect SiS755FX and SiS964 MuTIOL® Media IO
together.
SiS MuTIOL® technology is developed into three layers, the Multi-Threaded I/O
Link Layer delivering 1.2 GB/s bandwidth to connect embedded DMA Master devices
and external PCI masters to interface to Multi-Threaded I/O Link Layer, the
Multi-Threaded I/O Link Encoder/Decoder in SiS964 to transfer data with 1GB/s
bandwidth from/to Multi-Threaded I/O Link Layer to/from SiS755FX, and the
Multi-Threaded I/O Link Encoder/Decoder in SiS755FX to transfer data with 1GB/s
from/to memory sub-system to/from the Multi-Threaded I/O Link Encoder/Decoder in
SiS964.
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Features |
Benefits |
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CPU
supported |
AMD Athlon ™64 FX processors |
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MuTIOL
1G® technology |
Proprietary Interconnect between SiS755 and SiS964. SiS MuTIOL® 1G
deliver 1GB/s bandwidth. |
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AGP8X
upgrade flexibility |
Make system performance upgrade and user's facilitation. Support Maximum
AGP interface bandwidth 2.1GB/s. Backwards compatible with AGP 4X. |
| Integrated SATA Controller
with RAID functions. |
Provide 2 independent SATA ports, compliant with Serial ATA 1.0
Specification.Support RAID 0, 1 and JBOD. |
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ATA133
enhancement |
Fastest storage support. Increasing data/file transfer rate. |
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AC97
Controller |
Hollywood 3D stereo enriches audio surrounding with up to six channels. |
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Integrated Communication Controller for LAN or HPNA use |
MII interface used for 10/100Mbps LAN or 1/10Mbps HomePNA function.
Reaching cost-effective solution and design elasticity. |
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Integrated USB2.0 Controllers |
Support eight dynamically switch USB2.0/ 1.1 ports, to achieve real
legacy free systems. |
The Foxconn offering....
A basic box but seeing as how the socket 754 offering from
Foxconn is $25 less than comparable boards, the box is going to be the last
thing your money is after.
Opening the box is big surprise. A plethora of items adds a
lot of value to this motherboard package. A full software package. IDE, floppy,
USB, and SATA cables. Even a SATA power adapter, and the critically important
floppy driver disk for the onboard 4xSATA RAID. it looks to me like Foxconn
hasn't left anything out...
Onboard accessories galore. Realtek provide for the audio and
Ethernet. Sil3112 and SIS included the SATA RAID...Value keeps coming to mind..
Notice the very simple board layout. Its a real shame this board has very little
in terms of overclocking options because the layout gives you a lot of options
in terms of how big of a heatsink you can throw on the Northbridge (??), and
CPU... With this board you could quite easily do that and still have room to
spare... Why is there a Northbridge on this motherboard?
A quick look at the rear header of the board reveals SP-dif,
IEE1394 firewire, multi channel sound, USB 1.1/2.0, and the typical legacy
options.
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