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Motherboards M766LMRT

The processor

• Processors Slot 1 Intels Celeron, Pentium II/III or Socket 370 Intels Celeron PPGA, frequency of the system bus 66, 100 MHz are supported  .

Chip set

• i810 Chipset

System memory

• Two 168-contact DIMM slots supporting to 512 Mb SDRAM

Slots

• 3 PCI

The integrated IDE-controller

• 2 channels UltraDMA/33 Bus Master IDE with support to 4 ATAPI-arrangements

The built in graphics resources

• To 1600х1200 at colour of 8 bits and frame rate of 85 Hz.
• Compensation of movement and hardware expedition of decoding MPEG2
• Optional TV-encoder for NTSC and PAL.

Built in Audio

• Chip HT8738AM/PCI providing a fourline sound, full duplex, 24 bits of a stereo, 44 kgts etc .

Input\output ports

• 2 ports USB
• 1 consecutive and 1 parallel port with EPP and ECP
• 1 PS/2-port for mouse hooking up
• Floppy  
• Linear input terminal/output an input terminal

Miscellaneous

• Built in resources Hardware Monitoring
• Optional built in resources LAN (10BaseT/100Base TX LAN Adapter)
• The optional 56 K Fax/Modem unit supporting V.90, V.34, V.32bis, V.32, V.22bis, V.22, Auto Fallback, MNP5, V.42
• Optional resources USB, IR, PS/2
• Optional resources Digital Audio
• Optional resources AV/S-Video

Power supplies plugs — AT/ATX

The size

• Baby-AT A form factor, 22x25,7 sm

The presented motherboards have form factor Baby-AT, however simultaneous presence on cards of AT plugs and ATX their usage not only in tanks of type Baby-AT, but also in tanks ATX allows.

Simultaneous presence on cards of processor Slot 1 plugs and Socket 370 facilitates a choice of processors taking into account existence of different form factors. Thus according to the order bookings Socket 370 plug is intended for processors Celeron in form factor PPGA.

However it is impossible to ignore and certain features of the architecture. So for example, close layout of AGP slot for card M726MRT complicates usage of an adjacent PCI slot in case of usage of powerful videoadapters. This results from the fact that the structure of such arrangements, as a rule, includes rather bulky coolers overlapping space, intended for adjacent card PCI. In addition to it, the installed card of the modem does not allow to take advantage of following PCI plug. Thus, in case of usage of the powerful videoadapter and the modem card there is only one PCI plug or ISA. By the way, similar problems are not present for the second card — M766LMRT, created on the basis of a chip set i810. Absence of a problem with the videoadapter speaks absence in the architecture of the motherboard of AGP slot, linked to usage built in structure of a chip set of video resources. There is no also a second problem, therefore at card M766LMRT usage all three PCI slots are always accessible, that taking into account advantages of a chip set i810 allows to consider the given card as successful solution for computer creation, otlichajushegosja the low price.

By consideration of the specified features of the architecture of motherboard M726MRT it is necessary to remind, that the given card concerns to category the accessories oriented to systems Low End. As presence on the motherboard of rather high-quality audioresources at possibility of hooking up of the card of the modem and the powerful videoadapter in most cases allows ogranichtsja one additional PCI/ISA slot.

In summary it is necessary to pay attention, that functionality and a complete set depend on model of the motherboard and usage of optional resources. As it is quite often underlined, the corporation reserves the right to itself to make changes to a construction of cards. Therefore it is necessary to show certain attentiveness at purchase of a concrete copy of the motherboard, consulting with experts of the corporation-seller.

Correct and optimal choice of the motherboard with an appropriate chip set — pledge of high efficiency of the computer, its reliable and a stable operation, and also frictionless upgrade.

And as to an estimation of productivity of the considered motherboards this subject will find the continuation in subsequent articles.