Product Summary

The VIA P4M890 features a high bandwidth V-Link bus to allow communication between the chipsets North and South bridges at 533MB/sec. When combined with solutions such as the market-leading VIA VT8251 South Bridge and a broad array of VIA companion chips, the VIA P4M890 provides a comprehensive range of storage, multimedia and connectivity features, including native Serial ATA and V-RAID, 6-channel or 8-channel VIA Vinyl Audio, VIA Velocity Gigabit Ethernet, USB2.0, and 1394.

Parametrics

Characteristics: (1)Processor Support: Intel Core2 Duo, Pentium 4, and Celeron processors; (2)Hyper Threading Support: Yes; (3)Front Side Bus: 1066/800MHz/533MHz/400MHz; (4)Memory Support: DDR2 533/400, DDR 400/333/266/200; (5)Max Memory: 4GB; (6)PCI Express Graphics Support: PCI Express x16 Graphics; (7)PCI Express Peripheral Support: PCI Express x1; (8)North/South Bridge Link: V-Link (533 MB/Sec); (9)Graphics Core: VIA UniChrome Pro; (10)Video Acceleration: Yes; (11)Dual Monitor Support: Yes; (12)Video De-blocking: Yes; (13)Hardware Display Rotation: Yes; (14)Video Capture Ports: Yes.

Features

Features: (1)Full support for the latest Intel Processors; (2)Supports 1066/800/533MHz Front Side Bus Settings; (3)Supports up to 4GB DDR2 or DDR Memory; (4)V-Link 533 MB/sec high bandwidth North/South Bridge interconnect; (5)Integrated VIA UniChrome Pro; (6)Optimized Unified Memory Architecture (UMA); (7)200MHz Graphics Engine Clock with separated 128-bit data paths; (8)128-bit 2D and 3D Graphics Engine; (9)Chromotion CE Video Display Engine; (10)Two 8-bit Video Capture Ports; (11)Full Software support including Microsoft DirectX 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 and Open GL support; (12)Support for VIA Vinyl HD Audio; (13)Serial ATA support for up to 4 devices; (14)Integrated V-RAID with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD (SATA) support; (15)Parallel ATA133/100/66 support for up to 4 devices; (16)Support for up to 8 USB 2.0/USB 1.1 ports; (17)Advanced System Power Management Support.

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