Asus ALi Chipset TUA266

Asus ALi Chipset TUA266 ... beyond. This motherboard enables 266MHz memory bus speeds and PC2100/PC1600 DDR support as well as PC133 SDRAM support via the ALi Aladdin Pro 5T DDR chipset. The TUA266 is a flexible, high-performance motherboard for maximizing your CPU's potential.

With two DDR SDRAM sockets onboard, the TUA266 supports 2GB of PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM and delivers up to 2.1GB/s peak bandwidth. Three SDR DIMM sockets are also available to support up to 3GB with PC100/PC133 SDRAM, allowing memory configuration flexibility. An Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Pro 4X interface is onboard to support today's most sophisticated graphics cards that display 3D graphic images and streaming videos. 3D Audio High quality audio support comes through and an optional C-Media CMI8738SX onboard audio controller. With this advanced audio capability and good speakers, watching movies with total surround sound and listening to the latest MP3s right from the PC become a reality without the extra expense for a sound card. In addition to standard I/O interfaces that include ECP/EPP/SPP parallel port, two serial ports, and floppy disk controller, TUA266 also provides six USB ports, and an IrDA 1.0 infrared connector for wireless communications. The built-in super I/O controller incorporates full function universal asynchronous receiver/transmitters (UARTs) that support 16-byte data FIFOs.