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Chapter 1
Introduction
Overview
The S1952DLU Thunder X is a quality, high performance motherboard de-
signed for dual Intel Pentium II Xeon microprocessors. This motherboard
utilizes the Intel 440GX AGPset and can support CPU speeds of 400MHz
through 500MHz, and host bus speeds of up to 100MHz.
The S1952DLU motherboard, with built-in AGP slot, provides high perfor-
mance capabilities that are ideal for a server environment and ideal for a wide
range of demanding applications such as CAD, CAM, CAE, desktop publish-
ing, 3D animation, and video production.
This integrated system board achieves high reliability with numerous features
and yet is small enough to be supported in an extended ATX form factor. Some
of the features included are onboard dual channel PCI PIO, Bus Master IDE
and UltraDMA/33, onboard floppy controller, onboard 32-bit PCI Ultra2 dual
channel SCSI, and onboard high speed I/O.
Flexibility and expendability have been designed into the Thunder X. With I/O
and drive controller support built onboard, the one AGP slot, six PCI and one
ISA slot (one shared, seven usable slots) are free for numerous add-on
expansion cards.
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