Fic SD11 Athlon Slot A
AMD 751 VIA 686A mainboard

Friday, January 28, 2000


Additional features (continued)

Additional features normaly supplied with motherboards are not found with the SD11. By all appearances, the SD11 was pushed through development a bit to quickly with the results being a bare-minimum implementation of features. For example, there is no Suspend to Disk, no special start-up features, no hardware monitoring... All said, the SD11 seems to be clocked in little more than its birthday-suit...

Below, a photo of the SD11 provides a splendid view of the board, and its components.


Note: Click here for detailed specifications


Installation

As with most boards of this type, installation of the SD11 was quite simple. There is, of course, no need to position jumpers, or to adjust BIOS settings in order to configure the processor, as it is all done automaticly.



The software Bundle

The installation CD, includes Bus Master & AGP VGart patches, audio drivers, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and DirectX 6.1. An included diskette contains AGP drivers for the AMD751 chipset.

Next: The test results.


SD11 ......... Slot A
  • 200MHz CPU Bus Speed
  • Auto-detect Clock Ratio from BIOS
  • Auto-detect FSB frequencies from BIOS
  • UDMA 66 support
  • AGP 2X mode support
Processor
  • AMD Athlon™ 500-800MHz with AMD Athlon system bus for FSB @ 200MHz
Chipset
  • North : AMD-751™
  • South : VIA 686A
Memory
  • 3 DIMM
  • up to 768MB PC-100 SDRAM
  • ECC memory support
Onboard I/O Connectors
  • 2 USB
  • 1 parallrel port with ECP/EPP
  • 1 PS/2 mouse and keyboard connector
  • 1 serial port with UART 16550
Onboard PCI IDE
  • 2 dual-channeled enhanced PCI Bus Master IDE connectors
  • Ultra DMA 33/66 ; DMA Mode 2/4 support
Expansion Slots
  • 1 AGP 2Xmode
  • 5 PCI
  • 1 ISA (mfg. option)
BIOS
  • 2Mb flash ram
  • ACPI
  • APM 1.2 / PnP 1.0a / SMBIOS 2.1 / DMI 2.0 / WfM 1.1a
  • Select Ratio and FSB frequencies from BIOS
Power Connector
  • 20-pin ATX power connector
Form Factor
  • ATX
  • 9.6" x 12 " (243.8mm x 304.8mm)
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Package Contents
  • 1 motherboard
  • 1 manual
  • 1 CD-PRO
  • 1 ATA66 Cable, 1 ATA33 IDE Cable and 1 FDD Cable
Additional info.
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