NETWORKING

Native Gigabit Ethernet technology

• The fastest Gigabit Ethernet solution in the market
• Supports 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet

Advanced networking features

• TCP segmentation offloads
• Jumbo frames
• Checksum offloads
• Interrupt moderation
• Traffic prioritization
• Remote wake-up
• Network management for easy set up, configuration, and monitoring

• Dedicated hardware engine
• Reduces CPU overhead

STORAGE

NVIDIA RAID

• RAID 0 disk striping support for highest system and application performance
• RAID 1 disk mirroring support for fault tolerance
• RAID 0 +1 disk striping and mirroring support for highest performance with fault tolerance
• Disk alert system provides a visual indication so users know exactly which hard drive to replace during an array failure
• Morphing allow users to change the current state of an array to another using one single step without reboot of the PC
• Cross-controller RAID uniquely supports both SATA and PATA disk devices within a single array

Serial ATA

• Support for SATA 3Gb/s, 1.5Gb/s disk controller standards
• Dual controller architecture providing full 3Gb/s bandwidth to each disk
• Features 4 integrated SATA 3Gb/s ports  

Fast Ultra ATA-133 Disk Drive Controller

• 5V-tolerant primary and secondary channels, with support for up to four devices
• Supports UltraDMA modes 6-0 (UltraDMA 33/66/100/133)
• Industry-standard PCI bus master IDE register set
• Separate independent IDE connections for 5V-tolerant primary and secondary interfaces

CONNECTIVITY

PCI Express interface

• PCI Express high-performance, scalable interconnect. Rapidly being adopted by the PC industry; designed to replace the AGP and PCI interconnects currently in use.
• x16 PCI Express link has 4 times the total bandwidth of today’s AGP 8X interface
• x16 PCI Express link for high-performance graphics cards featuring the latest graphics processors with Microsoft DirectX 9 Shader Model 3.0 support
• Additional x1 PCI Express links for other add-in cards
• VC1 support on all links provide guaranteed bandwidth to CPU for time-sensitive applications

USB 2.0

• USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI)/dual and USB 1.1 Open Host Controller Interface (OHCI)
• Support for up to 10 ports
• Supports transfer rates at high speed (480 Mbps), full speed (12 Mbps), and low speed (1.2 Mbps)
• Dynamically configures slower devices for best utilization of bandwidth
• Allows USB concurrency

PCI interface

• Integrates a fast PCI-to-PCI bridge running at 33 MHz. Includes an arbiter that supports six external master PCI slots.
• Features of the PCI interface include:
• PCI 2.3-compliant, 5 V tolerant
• Supports six external PCI slots at 33 MHz
• Supports six bus master arbitration PCI master and slave interfaces
• Supports both master-initiated and slave-initiated terminations
• Bidirectional write posting support for concurrency
• Flexible routing of all four PCI interrupts
• Supports read ahead: memory read line (MRL) and memory read multiple (MRM)

PERFORMANCE

HyperTransport technology

• 16 x 16 link running at 1GHz for extremely high throughput (8.0GB/sec)
• Differential lines with low voltage swings

AUDIO

AC ’97 2.3 compliant interface

• Supports 2, 4, 6, or 8-channel audio
• Dual AC-Link: supports up to two codecs
• Dual S/PDIF: supports two simultaneous digital outputs; handles stereo PCM or AC-3 output
• 16-bit or 20-bit stereo, 48kHz output and 16-bit input streams across AC-Link
• 24-bit, 96kHz stereo output on the secondary S/PDIF output
• Supports input, output, and general purpose input/output (GPIO) channels for host-based modems
• Separate independent functions for audio and modem

MOBILITY

• Power management
• Full support for AMD PowerNow! technology
• ACPI 2.0 compliant
• Support for ACPI C3 state
• Low-power 0.15 micron process
• Maximizing real estate efficiency enabling small form factor designs
• Single-chip solution
• Lower latency for higher performance