| Q: | What is the AMD-760™ MP chipset?
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| A: | The AMD-760 MP chipset is an AMD chipset for the AMD Athlon MP processor. It consists of two chips: the AMD-762™ system bus controller, or Northbridge, and the AMD-766™ peripheral bus controller, or Southbridge. The AMD-760 MP chipset unleashes the power of Double Data Rate (DDR) memory technology for multi-tasking and multimedia-intensive applications. The AMD-760 MP chipset supports up to two AMD Athlon MP processors with a 266MHz front side bus, as well as PC2100 DDR memory and AGP-4x graphics. |
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| Q: | What are the features and benefits of the AMD-762 Northbridge?
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| A: | The AMD-762 system bus controller features support for up to two AMD Athlon MP processors using Smart MP technology, up to 4 Gigabytes of PC2100 DDR memory, and AGP-4x graphics card support. All of these combine to enable multi-tasking and multimedia environments. It also features a faster 266MHz bus, representing a 33 percent increase compared to previous AMD Athlon processor bus speeds. |
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| Q: | What are the features and benefits of the AMD-766 Southbridge? What speed hard drives does it support?
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| A: | The AMD-766 peripheral bus controller supports Ultra DMA 100/66/33 hard drives. Along with support for standard PCI, the AMD-766 Southbridge also supports up to four USB ports for easy connection of peripherals. |
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| Q: | What is Smart MP technology?
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| A: | Smart MP technology features dual point-to-point, high-speed 266MHz system buses, an optimized "MOESI" cache coherency protocol, which manages data and memory traffic, as well as innovative "snoop" buses, which offer high-speed communication between the CPUs in multiprocessing systems. Smart MP technology is designed to optimize the execution of multi-threaded, mission-critical applications. |
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| Q: | Is Socket A supported?
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| A: | Yes. |
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