Sis661FX Socket 478

Upgrade your PC with this Mercury PS661 FXM-L socket 478 microATX motherboard. Features include an SiS661FX Northbridge chipset, SiS963L Southbridge chipset with support for Intel Pentium 4 CPUs with Hyper Threading Technology and 800 MHz Front Side Bus. Key features include integrated 10/100 LAN, integrated video and AC'97 audio. Two 184-pin DIMM sockets support up to 2 GB of memory. There's plenty of room for expansion with one AGP slot, three PCI slots, and one CNR slot. Get yours today!

Features/Specifications:

Mercury PS661 FXM-L SIS661FX Socket 478 ATX Motherboard General Features: SiS661FX Northbridge chipset SiS963L Southbridge chipset Socket 478 microATX form factor Integrated video AC'97 Audio CODEC Integrated 10/100 LAN Supports up to 2 GB memory Expansion Slots: Two (2) 184-pin DIMM sockets One (1) CNR slot Three (3) PCI slots One (1) AGP slot I/O Ports: Two (2) PS/2 ports One (1) Parallel port One (1) 9-pin Serial port Four (4) USB ports RJ-45 ethernet port Mic in, Line in, Line out jacks Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4 CPUs with Hyper Threading Technology 800 MHz Front Side Bus Regulatory Approvals: FCC CE

Package Includes:

Mercury PS661 FXM-L SIS661FX Socket 478 ATX Motherboard User Guide Driver CD IDE cable Floppy cable I/O Shield

Additional Information:

Requirements: ATX case ATX power supply rated Supported processor Supported RAM Rest of System

SiS officially announces its new SiS661FX chipset

SiS (Silicon Integrated Systems) officially announced its new integrated SiS661FX chipset supporting Pentium 4 processors.
The Web has heen rumouring about this solution for some time already, and now SiS661FX specs are confirmed by the manufacturer:

• Used with SiS964 (or SiS963L) Southbridge
• Supports Intel Pentium 4 with HyperThreading and up to 800MHz FSB
• Supports single-channel DDR400/DDR333/DDR266, up to 2 unbuffered DIMM DDR400, up to 3 unbuffered DIMM DDR333/266; supports 1Gb DIMM (on 512Mbit chips)
• SiS MuTIOL, up to 1Gb/s
• AGP8X
• SiS Ultra-AGPII
• Integrated 256-bit 3D / 128-bit 2D Real256E graphics core supporting DirectX 9; featuring 2 pixel rendering pipelines, 4 texture blocks per clock (2P4T), up to 200MHz ECLK, 32 or 64 Mb memory, dual 12-bit DDR Digital Interface for LCD monitors and TV-out (NTSC/PAL), Dual View for LCD-TV, LCD-CRT or CRT-TV combinations, 333MHz RAMDAC supporting CRT resolutions up to 2048x1536x32@75Hz, LCD resolutions up to 1600x1200x32@60Hz, and TV resolutions up to 1024x768x32@60Hz
• With SiS964 it supports 2 x Serial ATA 1.0 ports with RAID 0, 1, JBOD; up to 8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports, MII interface, Fast Ethernet/Home Networking, 6-ch. AC97 codec v2.3, v.90 HSP modem
• ACPI 1.0b and APM 1.2
• Pin compatibility with the previous SiS6xx chipsets

SiS661FX volume production is scheduled to August 2003, with volume availability expected in September 2003.

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