The SiSM672, supporting Intel® Core™2 Duo, Pentium® D, and Pentium® 4 series processors, features a PCI Express x16 Bridge, flexible Single-Channel DDR2-667 Memory controller, Mirage™ 3+ graphic engine, and SiS MuTIOL® Technology, which connects with the SiS968 MuTIOL® Media I/O.
The advanced Mirage™3+ graphics engine, combining with Pixel Shader 2.0, Texture Pipelines, Texture Filtering and Cubic Mapping technologies, enables the SiSM672 integrated chipsets to deliver excellent graphics performances under 2D and 3D conditions. With support of SiS Real Video Technology, the image quality and definition of digital entertainment devices, such as TV, VCD, and DVD can be presented perfectly and thoroughly under Windows Vista™ Premium Edition.
Pairing with the SiSM672 Northbridge chipset, the SiS968 Southbridge chipset has several unique features. It has been designed to focus on reducing the power-consumption. Therefore, it is able to actively adjust the power consumption of peripheral. With such an advanced technology, the SiS968 Southbridge chipset can save up to 50% of power for the system. Besides, the SiS968 Southbridge chipset is integrated with SiS proprietary MuTIOL® 1G technology to connect with the SiSM672 speedily. It supports 2 PCI Express interfaces, and 2 SATA 3G ports which allows up to 300MB/s of data transmission. Also, the SiS968 Southbridge supports 8 USB2.0 ports, which perfectly meets the requirement of connecting more and more devices. Moreover, it supports the most advanced 8-channel High-Definition Audio surround sound to provide better sound effects, and supports Gigabit Ethernet to have faster internet access.