Advantech ATX Motherboard AIMB-760 is Unveiled

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Advantech unveils a new Intel Pentium 4 processor-based industrial ATX motherboard, AIMB-760. Built-on Intel LGA775 architecture, the AIMB-760 features optimal computing speed up to 3.8 GHz and supports high capacity dual channel DDRII 400/533 memory. It also comes with advanced I/O capabilities such as dual PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet, four Serial-ATA devices, and eight USB ports. With flexibility for card expansions and long term support, the AIMB-760 is best fit for customers who are using off-the-shelf products but require industrial features for data intensive business and gaming applications.

Designed for performance-demanding applications, the AIMB-760 is an industrial-grade ATX motherboard supporting Intel LGA775 socket Pentium 4/Celeron D processors with processing speeds up to 3.8 / 3.06 GHz and L2 cache up to 2 MB. Incorporating Intel's 915GV chipset, the AIMB-760 supports a Front Side Bus running at 400 MHz / 800 MHz and offers a maximum memory capacity of 4 GB of dual channel DDRII 400/533 SDRAM, which allows greater memory bandwidth up to 8.5 GB/s. In addition, the AIMB-760 performs a cost-effective graphic solution with integrated VGA controller which delivers superb media and 3D capabilities with sharing memory up to 128 MB.

The AIMB-760 comes with five 32-bit, 33-MHz PCI slots and one PCI Express slot for legacy or advanced add-on cards. The AIMB-760 provides an exciting intensive industrial network solution that implements PCI Express host interfaces for dual Gigabit LANs. Each PCI Express x1 bus offers up to bandwidth of 500 MB/sec which eliminates bottleneck of network data flow and incorporates Gigabit Ethernet to operate at 1000 Mbps. In addition, the AIMB-760 has multiple high performance onboard I/O capabilities, such as eight USB 2.0 ports and four Serial ATA ports with the high-speed data transfers at 150MB/s.

AIMB-760 is enhanced with several industrial computing features such as a watchdog timer, long Mean-Time-Before-Failure (MTBF), and CMOS data backup. To prevent overheating, the AIMB-760 features a thermal protection circuit that shuts the core processor down automatically if the cooling system fails. A remote management port helps monitor system health status and controls the system remotely through the SNMP/HTTP protocol in conjunction with Advantech's SNMP-1000 Intelligent System Manager.

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