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News Release from: Kontron UK | Subject: KT780/ATX motherboard
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 March 2008
Basic motherboard handles high-end
graphics
The Kontron KT780/ATX is specially designed for high-volume OEM systems that have fast innovation cycles and therefore reduced requirements on long-term availability.
Kontron has released the KT780/ATX motherboard, which offers the AMD AM2/AM2+ socket supporting AMD Phenom Quad Core processor performance and the latest AMD chipsets The AMC chipsets offer high-end graphics features for full 1080p high-definition video in a cost-effective basic motherboard design
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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As the first in Kontron's new class of so called "basic motherboards", the Kontron KT780/ATX is specially designed for high-volume OEM systems that have fast innovation cycles and therefore reduced requirements on long-term availability.
The cost-effective motherboard offers up to three years availability and is suitable for the latest generation of POS and POI applications with high innovation rates such as: automatic check-in systems at airports, railway stations and bus stations as well as toll collection terminals, automatic cash machines and other kiosk and OEM multimedia applications in sectors such as gaming.
The Kontron KT780/ATX basic motherboard is also the suitable choice for factory floor applications.
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Based around the latest AMD RS780 and SB700 chipsets including high-performance AMD AM2/AM2+ Athlon 64 and Phenom single, dual, triple and quad-core processors, the Kontron KT780/ATX basic motherboard offers scalable performance up to 4x 2.6GHz to meet individual application requirements.
Performance is boosted by two dual channel RAM banks for up to 32Gbyte of DDR2-400/533/667/800 with ECC support for increased data security.
In addition to low-cost processor performance, applications also benefit from the high-end graphics features offered by the Kontron KT780/ATX basic motherboard.
The new integrated graphics processor (IGP) is based on the ATI Radeon HD 3200, which supports DirectX 10 and incorporates a dual display, integrated DVI, HDMI and CRT as well as internal TMDS (transition minimised differential signalling) and VESA DisplayPort functionality.
Furthermore, it has a unified video decoder (UVD) for accelerated decoding of HD video data for enhanced Blu-ray and HD-DVD playback.
Should even greater performance be required, external graphic cards can be connected via the PEG PCI Express 2.0 expansion slot.
Despite emphasis on a low-cost, basic design the Kontron KT780/ATX basic motherboard offers features such as HDD RAID 0/1/5/10 support for enhanced data safety, HD audio and TPM onboard.
Equipped with HyperFlash support for fast OS booting, the Kontron KT780/ATX basic motherboard supports Windows XP, Vista and Linux and is backed up by Kontron's VDC (Venture Development Corporation) platinum level service.
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