6309 Specifications

The Specs

As we mentioned earlier, the 6309 is based on VIA's Apollo Pro133A chipset, and features the Socket 370 interface. Here's the entire spec list:

CPU
Socket 370 for Intel Celeron processor.
Supports 233MHz, 266MHz, 300MHz, 333MHz, 350MHz, 400MHz, 500MHz, 533MHz…667MHz or faster processor

Chipset
VIA 694X chipset (510 BGA)
PII FSB @ 133MHz
AGP 4X and PCI plus Advanced ECC Memory Controller
Support PC100/133 SDRAM, VCM, and ESDRAM technology
VIA VT82C686A chipset (352 BGA)
Advanced Power Management Features
Integrated Super I/O (FDC, LPT, COM ½, and IR)
DirectSound AC97 Audio
Dual bus Master IDE Ultra DMA33/66
ACPI

Clock Generator
66.6MHz and 133MHz clocks are supported

Main Memory
Support 6 memory banks using three 168-pin unbuffered DMM
Supports a maximum memory size of 1.5GB (32Mx8)
Support ECC (1-bit Error Code Correct) function
Support 3.3V SDRAM DIMM

Slots
One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slot
-AGP specification compliant
-AGP 66MHz 3.3V device support
One AMR (Audio Modem Riser) slot
Five 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots and one 16-bit ISA slot wherein one shared slot can be used as ISA or PCI
Supports 3.3V/5V PCI bus Interface

On-Board IDE
An IDE controller on the VIA VT82C686A chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA 33/66 operation modes
Can connect up to four IDE devices

On-Board Peripherals
Onboard peripherals include:
-1 floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M, and 2.88Mbytes
-2 serial ports (COMA+COMB)
-1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
-2 USB ports
-1 IrDA/HO connector for SIR

Audio
Chip Integrated
Creative CT5880 Hardware Audio (optional)
-If Creative CT5880 audio is onboard. Then, only 4 PCI slots will be master slot. The remaining 1 slot will be slave slot.

BIOS
The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug and Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically
The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) function that records your mainboard specifications

Dimension
ATX Form Factor: 30.5cm(L) x 19.2cm(W) x 4 layers PCB

Upon first glancing at the 6309 spec sheet, we were a little disappointed to see that the 6309 only supported the industry standard bus speeds of 66MHz, 100MHz, and 133MHz.

However, once we booted up the BIOS, we discovered that there were plenty of additional options available. More on that later though!