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Introducing the Motherboard

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the NFORCE4-A939 motherboard. This motherboard is a high

performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports Socket 939 AMD Sempron/

Athlon 64/Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64 X2 CPUs for high-end business or personal desktop

markets.

The NFORCE4-A939 motherboard is based on NVIDIA®CrushK8-04 (CK8-04) media and

communications processor (MCP) for best desktop platform solution. CrushK8-04 is a

single-chip, highly integrated, high performance HyperTransport peripheral controller,

unmatched by any other single chip-device controller. This motherboard supports up to

4GB of system memory with PC3200/2700/2100/1600 DDR DIMMs, high resolution graph-

ics via an PCI Express x16 slot, Giga LAN, USB 2.0, 6-channel audio, and Digital S/PDIF out.

There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and

keyboard connectors, COM1, LPT1, four USB ports, one optional LAN port, one optional

coaxial SPDIF out, one optional optical SPDIF out and audio jacks for microphone, line-in,

and line-out. This motherboard is designed in an ATX form factor using a four-layer printed

circuit board and measures 305 mm x 244 mm.