Specifications
Form Factor: micro BTX 26.41 cm x 26.67 cm Form Factor
CPU Support:
• Supports the Athlon 64/Athlon 64 X2/ Sempron processors, including AM2 socket CPUs.
• Supports 200, 400, 600, 800, and 1000MHz HyperTransport (HT) interface speeds.
System Memory:
• Support four 64 bit Wide DDR data channel.
• Socket Type: UnBuffer 240 Pins DDR2 DIMM Socket.
• Support DDR2 533/667/800
• Support maximum memory bandwidth of 10.7GB/s in dual channel interleaved mode.
• Support 512Mb/1Gb DDR technologies for x8 and x16 non ECC DDR devices.
• Registered DIMM not Supported
• Maximum Memory Size: 4GB Capability
• DIMM Socket: 4
Warning (Not all memory configuration qualified)
Bus Architecture:
• PCI Slot: 2 PCS
• PCI Express 1X
• PCI Express 16X
• LAN On Board REALTEK RTL8111B
RTC & Battery:
• With CMOS SRAM Hardware Clear Jumper
Peripherals:
• Support One
• Ultra DMA/133/100/66/33
• IDE Channel
• Support two Serial ATA CONN
• Support One 1.44M USB FDD
• Support One Bi
• Direction/EPP/ECP Printer Port
• Support Eight USB Ports (4 Ports for Connector/4 Ports for Header)
Core Logic (Chipset): MS 7347 chipset consisting of
• ATI Chipset (Northbridge): RS690 Graphics Processor (IGP) and system controller
• ATI Chipset (Southbridge): SB600 I/O Controller
• S/O: W83627DHG
• Audio CODEC: Realtek (ALC888)
• LAN: GIGA Lan (Realtek 8111B) features:
RS690 (Northbridge):
• PCI Express Interface
• Compliant with the PCI Express 1.1a Specifications.
• Link Express II interface (PCI Express 1.1 compliant) for connection to an AMD Southbridge, providing more bandwidth than the older Link Express interface.
2D Acceleration Features
• Highly optimized 128 bit engine, capable of processing multiple pixels per clock.
• Hardware acceleration of Bitblt, Line Draw, Polygon / Rectangle Fill, Bit Masking, Monochrome Expansion, Panning/Scrolling, Scissoring, and full ROP support (including ROP3).
• Optimized handling of fonts and text using AMD proprietary techniques.
• Hardware acceleration for ClearType font rendering.
• Game acceleration including support for Microsoft DirectDraw: Double Buffering, Virtual Sprites, Transparent Blit, and Masked Blit.
• Supports a maximum resolution of 2048x1536 @ 32bpp for a maximum pixel clock speed of 400MHz driver limited).
• Acceleration in 1/8/15/16/32 bpp modes:
• ClearType mode for 1bpp
• Pseudocolor mode for 8bpp
• ARGB1555 and RGB565 modes for 16bpp
• ARGB8888 mode for 32bpp
• Significant increase in the High
• End Graphics WinBench score due to capability for C18 color expansion
• Setup of 2D polygons and lines.
• Support for new GDI extensions in Windows 2000 and Windows XP:Alpha BLT, Transparent BLT, Gradient Fill.
• Hardware cursor (up to 64x64x32bpp), with alpha channel for direct support of Windows 2000 and Windows XP alpha cursor.
3D Acceleration Features
• Multi texturing via one texture blending unit per pixel pipes, allowing up to 512 texel reads per pixel in a single pass.
• 3D Texture support, including projective 3D textures.
• Comprehensive support for bump mapping: emboss, dot product, and environment bump maps.
• Improved precision in anisotropic filtering and bilinear filtering.
• Supports a maximum resolution of 2048x1536 @ 32bpp for a maximum pixel clock speed of 400MHz (driver limited).
• Complete 3D primitive support: points, lines, triangles, lists, strips and quadrilaterals and BLTs with Z compare.
• Improved texture compositing.
• Hidden surface removal using 16, 24, or 32 bit Z buffering (maximum Z buffer depth is 24 bits when stencil buffer enabled) and Early Z hardware.
• 8 bit stencil buffer.
• Bilinear and trilinear texture filtering.
• Full support of Direct3D texture lighting.
• Dithering support in 16 bpp for near 24 bpp quality in less memory.
• Extensive 3D mode support.
• Anti-aliasing using multi sampling algorithm with support for 2, 4, and 6 samples.
• Optimized for full performance in true color triple buffered 32bpp acceleration modes.
• New generation rendering engine provides top 3D performance.
• Support for OpenGL format for Indirect Vertices in Vertex Walker.
• Full DirectX 9.0 support (Vertex Shader version 2.0 and Pixel Shader version 2.0)
• Full precision floating point pixel pipeline.
• Support for up to 4 MRTs (Multiple Render Targets).
• Support for writing all texture formats from render pipe in floating points (including cube maps and 3D textures).
• Support for up to 512b per pixel formats (4 color case).
• Advanced setup engine, capable of processing 1 polygon (lit and textured) per cycle
Motion Video Acceleration Features
• Enhanced MPEG 2 hardware decode acceleration, including support for Integrated general purpose iDCT engine for MPEG2 and DV decode acceleration.
• Integrated MPEG motion compensation engine for decode acceleration.
• Parallel operation of the iDCT and MC and high processing rates with minimal software overhead.
• Provides dramatically reduced CPU utilization without incurring the cost of a full MPEG2 decoder.
• MPEG 4 simple profile support.
• Hardware acceleration for WMV9 playback.
• Supports top quality DVD with low CPU usage.
• Hardware based adaptive de interlacing filter and scaler provide high quality full screen and full speed video playback. Minimizes the aliasing artifacts along edges usually caused by a conventional deinterlacer/scaler.
Multiple Display Features
General
• Dual independent displays. Possible configurations include:
• CRT and DVI/HDMI
• Resolution, refresh rates, and display data can be completely independent for the two display paths.
• Each display controller supports true 30 bits per pixel throughout the display pipe.
• Each display path supports VGA and accelerated modes, video overlay, hardware cursor hardware icon, and palette gamma correction.
• Supports both interlaced and non interlaced displays.
• Support for display modes up to 2880 pixels/line per display.
• Full ratiometric expansion ability is supported for source desktop modes up to 1920 pixels/line.
• Maximum DAC frequency of 400 MHz.
• Supports 8, 16, 32 & 64bpp depths for the main graphics layer:
• For 32bpp depth, supports xRGB 8:8:8:8, xRGB 2:10:10:10, sCrYCb 8:8:8:8, and xCrYCb 2:10:10:10 data formats.
• For 64bpp depth, supports xRGB 16:16:16:16 data format.
• Independent gamma, color conversion and correction controls for main graphics layer.
• Supports display resolutions beyond 2560x1600.
• Support for DDC1 and DDC2B+ for plug and play monitors.
• 8bit alpha blending of graphics and video overlay.
• Hardware cursor up to 64x64 pixels in 2bpp, full color AND/XOR mix, and full color 8bit alpha blend.
• Hardware icon up to 128x128 pixels in 2bpp, with two colors, transparent, and inverse transparent. AND/XOR mixing.
• Supports 2x2 icon magnification.
• Virtual desktop support.
• Support for flat panel displays via VGA, DVI
• Support for stereoscopic monitors.
DVI
• Integrated DVI, 30bit dual link support for DVI.
• Supports industry standard EVA 861B video modes including 480p, 720p, and 1080i.
Power Management Features
• Fully supports ACPI states S1, S3, S4, and S5.
• The Chip Power Management Support logic supports four device power states defined for the OnNow Architecture
• On, Standby, Suspend, and Off. Each power state can be achieved by software control bits.
• Hardware controlled intelligent clock gating enables clocks only to active functional blocks and is completely transparent to software.
• Support for Cool n Quiet via FID/VID change.
• Support for PowerNow
• Clocks to every major functional block are controlled by a unique dynamic clock switching technique that is completely transparent to the software. By turning off the clock to the block that is idle or not used at that point, the power consumption is significantly reduced during normal operation.
• Support dynamic lane reduction for the PCIE interfaces, adjusting lane width according to required bandwidth.
PC Design Guide Compliance
• The RS690 complies with all relevant Windows Logo Program (WLP) requirements from Microsoft for WHQL certification.
Software Features
• Supports Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Vista.
• BIOS ability to read EDID 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3.
• Register compatible with VGA standards, BIOS compatible with VESA VBE2.0.
• Supports corporate manageability requirements such as DMI.
• ACPI support.
• Full Write Combining support for maximum performance of the CPU.
• Full featured, yet simple Windows utilities
• Drivers meet Microsoft s rigorous WHQL criteria and are suitable for systems with the Designed for Windows logos.
• Comprehensive OS and API support.
• Hot key support (Windows ACPI 1.0b or AMD Event Handler Utility where appropriate).
• Extensive power management support.
• Dual CRTC, simultaneous view, extended desktop support (Win98,Win XP)
• DirectX 9.0 support.
SB600 (Southbridge):
• Link Express II interface to the RADEON IGPs 1/2/4 lane A
• Link Express II interface
• Dynamic detection of lane configuration
• High data transfer bandwidth
PCI Host Bus Controller
• Supports PCI Rev. 2.3 specification
• Supports PCI bus at 33MHz
• Supports up to 6 bus master devices
• Supports 40bit addressing
• Supports interrupt steering for plug n play devices
• Supports concurrent PCI operations
• Supports hiding of PCI devices by BIOS/hardware
• Supports spread spectrum
USB controllers
• All 8 ports are USB 1.1 (Low Speed,Full Speed) and 2.0 (High Speed) compatible
• Supports ACPI S1~S5
• Supports legacy keyboard/mouse
SMBus Controller
• SMBus Rev. 2.0 compliant
• Support SMBALERT # signal / GPIO
Interrupt Controller
• Supports IOAPIC/X
• IO APIC mode for 24 channels of interrupts
• Supports 8259 legacy mode for 15 interrupts
• Supports programmable level/edge triggering on each channels
• Supports serial interrupt on quiet and continuous modes
DMA Controller
• Two cascaded 8237 DMA controllers
• Supports PC/PCI DMA
• Supports LPC DMA
• Supports type F DMA
LPC host bus controller
• Supports LPC based super I/O and flash devices
• Supports two master/DMA devices
• Supports TPM version 1.1/1.2 devices for enhanced security
• Supports SPI devices up to 33MHz
SATA II AHCI Controller
• Supports two SATA ports, complying with the SATA 1.0a specification
• Supports SATA II 3.0Gbit/s PHY, with backward compatibility with 1.5Gbit/s
• Supports both AHCI mode and IDE mode
• Supports NCQ
• Supports Hot Plug in AHCI mode only
• Supports advanced power management with AHCI mode
• Note: The SB600 does not support eSATA configuration directly from the host controller.
IDE Controller
• Single PATA channel support
• Supports PIO, Multi
• word DMA, and Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 modes
• 32x32byte buffers on each channel for buffering
• Swap bay support by tri
• state IDE signals
• Supports Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI)
• Integrated IDE series resistors
AC Link interface
• Supports for both audio and modem codecs
• Compliant with AC
• 97 codec Rev. 2.3
• 6/8 channel support on audio codec
• Multiple functions for audio and modem Codec operations
• Bus master logic
• Supports up to 3 codecs simultaneously
• Supports SPDIF output
• Separate bus from the HD audio
HD Audio
• 4 Independent output streams (DMA)
• 4 Independent input streams (DMA)
• Up to 16 channels of audio output per stream
• Supports up to 4 codecs
• Up to 192kHz sample rate
• Up to 32
• bit per sample
• Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) capability
• 64bit addressing capability for MSI
• 64bit addressing capability for DMA bus master
• Unified Audio Architecture (UAA) compatible
• HD Audio registers can be located anywhere in the 64bit address space
Timers
• 8254 compatible timer
• Microsoft High Precision Event Timer (HPET)
• ACPI power management timer
RTC (Real Time Clock)
• 256 byte battery
• backed CMOS RAM
• Hardware supported century rollover
• RTC battery monitoring feature
Power Management
• ACPI specification 2.0 compliant power management schemes
• Supports C2, C3, C4
• Support C1e and C3 popup (AMD platform only)
• Supports S0, S1, S2, S3, S4, and S5
• Note: The SB600 only supports the ACPI scheme. APM is NOT supported.
• Wakeup events for S1, S2, S3, S4/S5 generated by:
• Any GEVENT pin
• Any GPM pin
• USB
• Power button
• Internal RTC wakeup
• SMI# event
• Supports SpeedStep
• Full support for On Now
• Supports CPU SMM, generating SMI# signal upon power management events
• GPIO supports on external wake up events
• Supports CLKRUN# on PCI power management
• Provides clock generator and CPU STPCLK# control
• Hardware Monitoring support
• Support for ASF
I/O Controller: Winbond
• W83627DHG
• LPC I/F:
• Compliant With Intel LPC Interface Spec.V1.01
• Support LDRQ# (LPC DMA), SERIRQ (Serial IRQ) Protocols.
• Support DPM, ACPI
• Enhanced Hardware Monitor:
• Support CPU Thermal Sense and System Sense
• 10 external Voltage detect Inputs.
• One Chassis Open Detection Input.
• Supported Four Smart Fan control system.
• Support Five Fan speed Monitoring inputs
• Two 16C550 UART:
• Supports Two Standard Serial Ports.
• Supports IRDA 1.0/ASKIR Protocols.
• IEEE 1284 Parallel Port:
• Bidirectional SPP compliant
• Enhanced Mode
• EPP, IEEE 1284 Compliant.
• High Speed Mode
• ECP, IEEE 1284 Compliant.
• Floppy Disk Controller:
• Support 360K / 720K/ 1.2M/ 1.44M/ 2.88M Floppy Disk Drivers.
• Supports Automatic Write Protection via Software.
• Keyboard Controller:
• 8042 Compliance for PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse.
• Gate A20 and Keyboard Reset Output
• 48 General Purpose I/O Pins
Ethernet Controller: Realtek RTL8111B 10/100/1000 Mbps
• Integrated 10/100/1000 transceiver
• Auto Negotiation with Next Page capability
• Supports PCI Express 1.0a
• Supports pair swap/polarity/skew correction
• Crossover Detection & Auto Correction
• Wake on LAN and remote wake up support
• Microsoft® NDIS5 Checksum Offload (IP, TCP, UDP) and Largesend Offload support
• Supports Full Duplex flow control (IEEE 802.3x)
• Fully compliant with IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab
• Supports IEEE 802.1P Layer 2 Priority Encoding
• Supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
• Serial EEPROM
• Transmit/Receive on
• chip buffer (8KB/16KB) support
• Supports power down/link down power saving
• Supports PCI Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI)
• 64pin QFN package
Audio: Realtek ALC888 Codec.
• The ALC888 series 7.1+2 Channel High Definition Audio (HDA) codecs are compliant with Microsofts UAA (Universal Audio Architecture). The ALC888 series provide 10 DAC channels that simultaneously support 7.1 sound playback, plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the front panel stereo output.
• All analogue I/Os are input and output capable, and headphone amplifiers are also integrated at each analogue output.
• All analogue I/Os can be re tasked according to user s definitions, or automatically switched depending on the connected device type.
Features
• Meets performance requirements for audio on PC2001 systems and Microsoft WLP 3.0 Premium desktop PCs
• Ten DAC channels support 16/20/24bit PCM format for 7.1 sound playback, plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the front panel output
• 2 stereo ADCs support 16/20/24bit PCM format, one for stereo microphone, the other for legacy mixer recording
• All DACs support 44.1k/48k/96k/192kHz sample rate
• All ADCs support 44.1k/48k/96kHz sample rate
• Two jack detection pins, each designed to detect up to 4 jacks
• Wide range (80dB ~ +42dB) volume control with 1.5dB resolution of analog to analog mixer gain
• EAX 1.0 & 2.0 compatible
• Direct Sound 3D compatible
• A3D compatible
• I3DL2 compatible
• 10 Band Software Equalizer
Trusted Platform Module (TPM1.2)
• TCG 1.2 compliant trusted platform module (TPM)
• Security architecture based on Infineon SLE66CXxxPE security controller
• 16bit microcontroller in 0.22m CMOS technology
• TCG 1.2 compliant embedded software
• EEPROM for TCG firmware enhancements and for user data and keys
• Advanced Crypto Engine (ACE) with RSA support up to 2048 bit key length
• Hardware accelerator for SHA
• 1 hash algorithm
• True Random Number Generator (TRNG)
• Tick counter with tamper detection
• Infineon s TPM 1.2 will be certified at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4 Medium General Purpose Input/Output
• Microsoft s recommended GPIO is included
• LaGrande Technology (LT) Support
• Power saving sleep mode
• 3.3 V power supply
• WHQL dual mode 1.1b + 1.2 TPM Windows Kernel Mode Driver
• Operating temperature range: 0 °C to +70 °C
Connectors
• 1 Conventional PCI slots
• 1 DVI connector
• 1 VGA connector
• 2 serial port COM 1&2
• 1 DB25 parallel port with SPP, ECP, EPP bidirectional modes
• PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse ports (not swappable)
• 8 USB connectors (4 at back panel and 4 at front panel header)
• 1 Stereo microphone input (MicIn)
• 1 LineIn
• 1 LineOut
• 1 Speaker Out Connector
• 1 Front Panel Audio Header
• 1 IDE connector
• 1 Panel connector
• 1 RJ45 connector
• 2 SATA connectors
Bios Specifications
AWARD® BIOS, including support for:
• Plug and Play
• Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
• S3 mode
• Desktop Management Interface (DMI 2.0)
• 4 Mbits flash device.
• Language supported: English
• POST
