Acer Altos R300 User Manual

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3OverviewThe Altos R300 system is a PCI bus based processor system built on anoptimized baseboard. It comes with a single socket 478 processor slotutilizing an Intel® Pentium ® 4 processor or Intel ® Celeron processorwith the Server Works GC-SL core logic chipset consisting of threedistinct components: CMIC-SL, CIOBX2 and CSB5. The mainboard alsointegrates two Broadcom BCM 5703 10/100/1000 Base-T GigabitEthernet controllers solution for high performance networkapplications reducing power consumption.For expandability, the system includes two 64-bit/100 MHz PCI-X busslots and four DIMM slots that allow memory installation up to amaximum capacity of 4 GB.For connectivity, the mainboard provides two USB (Universal Serial Bus)connectors, PS/2 interfaces for both mouse and keyboard, one UARTserial port, one monitor port and two LAN ports.For media storage, Altos R300 supports one slim-type CD-ROM drive,one slim-type floppy disk drive and a hard disk drive.The system is fully compatible with Windows 2000 Server, SCOOpenServer 5.0.6, Unixware 7.1.1, NetWare 6, and Red Hat Linux 8.ProcessorsThe Intel® Pentium ® 4 processor implements a new scalable system busprotocol. The system bus uses SST (Source-Synchronous Transfer) ofaddresses and data to improve performance for servers orworkstations. With its on-die 512-KB level two (L2) cache implementingthe Advanced Transfer Cache Architecture, the Intel® Pentium ® 4processor delivers higher performance than previous Pentium IIIprocessors while maintaining binary compatibility with all previousIntel® Architecture processors.The mainboard supports FSB (front-side bus) speed up to 533 MHz.