For years, the 'art' of finding a good motherboard for your AMD based processor was not an easy task. Not as many Mainboard manufacturers wanted to spend their time accommodating such a niche market as was with the AMD based chips of the time, the Intel market was just so much larger. This has still not changed, and while you can find Athlon boards now, they are not much in the way of features. Many of these early Athlon mainboards were based on the AMD 'fester' design. While these boards worked, they offered nothing in the way of new and innovative features; this was when FIC decided to create the SD11 (now at rev 1.8).

The Specs

200MHz CPU Bus
CPU Auto Detect
Ultra DMA 33/66 Support
AGP 2/1x Modes
ATX Form Factor (9.6" x 12")

Chipset:
North Bridge-AMD 751 (Irongate)
South Bridge-VIA 686A

BIOS:
AMI based 2MB Flash BIOS

Processor Support:
AMD Athlon 500-850MHz

Memory Support:
3 DIMM Slots for up to 786MB PC-100 (ECC support)

I/O Connectors:
2 USB (4 with additional through external pin-out)
1 Parallel Port
1 Serial Port
2 PS/2 Connectors

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