The P4PB 266E offers

the performance and feature set necessary to stay abreast in today's dynamic computing environment. Based on the VIA Apollo P4X266E chipset, the successor of the highly acclaimed Apollo P4X266A, the P4PB 266E mainboard features 533MHz front side bus support for the latest high-speed Intel® Pentium® 4 processors and the rich 2D/3D graphics performance of AGP4X, as well as supporting today's "must have" features such as DDR266 SDRAM memory, USB 2.0, 6 channel audio, and ATA/133.

The P4PB 266E's six USB 2.0 ports provide seamless connectivity to all the latest high speed multimedia devices and peripherals such as digital video cameras, MP3 players, and the next generation of scanners and printers while also providing backwards compatibility with the more established USB 1.1 standard devices.

An onboard VIA VT1616 audio codec provides six channels of studio quality, crisp, digital surround sound and supports both optical and SPDIF outputs. The P4PB 266E is bundled with a S/PDIF connector bracket that fits neatly into any available PC chassis I/O expansion slot. The S/PDIF brackets enables digital to digital signal transfers between devices thus eliminating the signal degradation associated with traditional analog audio.

An onboard Smart Card connector enables easy implementation of PC Smart Card reader solutions. Smart Card solutions offer businesses, government, and individuals the highest level of security for applications such as online transactions, credit cards, electronics cash and identification cards. Smart Card implementation continues to grow as organizations continue to move towards storing and releasing information via networks, Intranets, extranets and the Internet.

The VIA P4PB 266E full featured ATX form factor layout offers unsurpassed scalability, with three DDR SDRAM DIMMs, five PCI, one AGP, and a CNR slot. The VIA P4PB 266E is also bundled with FliteDeck?, the extensive system management suite that enables advanced features such as overclocking, system monitoring and BIOS updates and comprises four utilities, MissionControl, JetStream, FlashPort, and SysProbe.