- Expansion slots are long rectangular connectors aligned in a row on the motherboard that connect expansion cards to the motherboard. The 648FX-ALE supports a total of five PCI expansion slots. The PCI slots of the 648FX-ALE are designed to accommodate additional hardware including sound cards, networking cards, modems and TV tuners. The 648FX-ALE also has one accelerated graphics port expansion slot that accepts video cards compatible with the AGP 4x and 8x interface standards.
- The external ports supplied with the 648FX-ALE include two USB 2.0 ports, one RJ-45 Ethernet port, two DB-9 serial ports, one DB-25 parallel port, two PS/2 ports, one game/MIDI port and four audio ports. The serial and parallel ports are used to connect external devices including disk drives, printers and scanners. The two PS/2 ports typically support a mouse and keyboard while the game and MIDI port is used to connect joysticks and certain audio devices. The audio ports supported by the 648FX-ALE includes an optical S/PDIF audio ouput and headphone style line-in, line-out and microphone-in ports.
- The 648FX-ALE motherboard supports Socket 478 compatible processors. The processors supported by this motherboard include models from the Pentium 4 and Celeron families. The 648FX-ALE provides an 800 MHz front side bus for systems using a Pentium 4 processor and a 533 or 400 MHz FSB for Celeron based systems. The front side bus has a major impact on the overall speed of the computer since it routes data between the processor and other system components.
- The 648FX-ALE supports 84-pin Double Data Rate system memory. It provides a total of three slots for memory that support a maximum of 3 GB of random access memory operating at 333 MHz. The 648FX-ALE also supports 400 MHz DDR RAM but it can only support a maximum of 1.5 GB of memory at that speed.
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