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Chipset Overview
The Grand Champion SL
"Champion" chipset technology.
the X5SS8-GM/X5SSE-GM/X5SSE-GMII is comprised of a North Bridge (CMIC-
SL) and a South Bridge (CSB6).
The North Bridge interfaces directly to the processors via a 533/400 MHz
Host bus and integrates the functions of the main memory subsystem and
the IMB bus interface unit. The memory subsystem consists of a 4 DIMM
configuration accessed over a 266 MHz memory bus at a peak bandwidth
of 1.6 GB/sec.
The South Bridge provides various integrated functions, including the PCI
bridge and support for UDMA100, security (passwords and system protec-
tion), Plug & Play, USBs, power management, interrupt controllers and the
LPC Bus.
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Special Features
ATI Graphics Controller
The X5SS8-GM/X5SSE-GM/X5SSE-GMII has an integrated ATI video control-
ler based on the Rage XL graphics chip. The Rage XL fully supports side-
band addressing and AGP texturing.
provide a bandwidth of up to 512 MB/sec over a 32-bit graphics memory
bus.
BIOS Recovery
The BIOS Recovery function allows you to recover your BIOS image file if
the BIOS flashing procedure fails (see Section 3-3).
Recovery from AC Power Loss
BIOS provides a setting for you to determine how the system will respond
when AC power is lost and then restored to the system. You can choose
for the system to remain powered off (in which case you must hit the
power switch to turn it back on) or for it to automatically return to a power
on state. See the Power Lost Control setting in the Advanced BIOS Setup
section (Peripheral Device Configuration) to change this setting.
fault setting is Always On.
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The GCSL chipset configuration used for
This onboard graphics package can
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