Introduction

The A7M266 is based on AMD^® 761™ chipset in ATX form factor for the latest support in AMD^® Athlon™ / Duron™ 550MHz ~ 1GHz+ processors. Such new chipset is ASUS's first Socket A version to incorporate 266MHz FSB and 2GB PC2100 / PC1600 DDR DRAM capability in the x86 platforms. This marvelous mainboard features support for Stepless Frequency Selection, a new technology which allows CPU frequency setting to be set in 1MHz-increments and also Ultra-Fast DMA/100 data transfer, and AGP Pro/4X, etc. Optional upgrades available for up to 4 USB ports, 3Com^® 3C920 100/10Mbps Ethernet card, and Cmedia^® CMI8738 audio.

Chipset

The AMD-761 system controller features the AMD Athlon system bus, DDR-SDRAM system memory controller, accelerated graphics port (AGP 4X) controller, and peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus controller.

Spec Summary

• Supports AMD^® Athlon™ / Duron™ 550MHz~1GHz+
• 2 x DIMM support for 2GB PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM
• AGP Pro/4X/2X/1X
• Ultra DMA 100/66/33 support
• 4 x PCI and 1 x PCI/AMR
• Up to 4 USB Ports max.
• 266MHz Front Side Bus
• Stepless Frequency Selection
• ASUS PC Health Monitoring™ and ASUS PC Probe™ software
• Optional LAN and Audio

 

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