MSI MS-6135 User Manual

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

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Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

The ATX GX1 Dual-P mainboard is a state-of-the-art dual-processor server
mainboard based on Intel® Pentium® II XeonTM processor. The Intel

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Pentium® II XeonTM processor is designed exclusively for powerful servers
and workstations.

The mainboard uses the highly integrated Intel® 82440GX chipset to support
the PCI/ISA and Green standards, and to provide the Host/AGP bridge. The
82371EB chipset integrates all system control functions such as ACPI
(Advanced Configuration and Power Interface). The ACPI provides more
Energy Saving Features for the OSPM(OS Direct Power Management)
function. The Intel® 82371EB chipset also improves the IDE transfer rate by
supporting Ultra DMA/33 IDE that transfers data at the rate of 33MB/s.

The mainboard also supports the System Hardware Monitor Controller as an
optional function. This function includes: CPU /power supply/chassis fan
revolution detect, CPU/system voltage monitor, system temperature monitor ,
and chassis intrusion detect.

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1.1 Mainboard Features

CPU

l Dual Slot 2 for Intel

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Pentium® II Xeon processor .

l Support 400MHz or faster with 512KB, 1MB or 2MB integrated L2 cache.

Chipset

l Intel

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82440GX AGPset.

l Intel

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82371EB chipset.

Onboard SCSI Connector

l SYM 53C896

- supports high performance 80Mbytes/sec Ultra 2 SCSI peripherals at
a cable lengths up to 12 meters.

l Supported RAID

- support AMI series 762 RAID Card

- support Mylex Acceleraid 200 RAID card

- support Mylex Acceleraid 250 RAID card

PCI-T o-PCI Bridge

l Digital 21152

- complies fully with Revision 2.1 of PCI Local Bus Specification.

- support six PCI master .

Main Memory

l Support eight memory banks using four 168-pin gold-lead DIMM sockets.
l Support a maximum memory size of 2GB.
l Support unbuffered or registered ECC(1-bit Error Code Correct) SDRAM.
l Support 3.3v SDRAM DIMM.

Slots

l One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slot

- data transfer rates at 133MHz (with AC timing)

l Six 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots and one ISA bus slot (wherein 1 PCI/ISA

is shared).

l Support 3.3v/5v PCI bus Interface.