Mainboard PM945GC
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Chapter 1. Getting Started
Introduction
Thanks for choosing PM945GC Mainboard. It is based on Intel
®
945GC Northbridge chipset
and Intel
®
ICH7 Southbridge chipset. In addition, it also supports integrated Graphics Media
Accelerator 950 for onboard graphics feature. It supports Intel
®
Core
TM
2 Duo/ Pentium
®
D/
Pentium
®
4/ Celeron
®
D/ Celeron
®
Processors with FSB (Front Side Bus) frequencies of 1066
MHz (by overclocking)/ 800 MHz/ 533 MHz.
The PM945GC provides two DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Modules) sockets which allowing
you to install 240-pin, unbuffered non-ECC, DDRII 667 (by overclocking)/ DDRII 533/ DDRII
400 SDRAMs. It also supports Dual Channel Technology and allows you installing a total
memory capacity of 2 GB.
This mainboard provides one PCI-Express interface slot up to x16 mode which is
recommended that insert a graphics card onto the PCI-Espress x16 slot. In addition, two
standard PCI slots for use with standard PCI expansion cards are also allowed.
The PM945GC provides one floppy disk drive connector that can be used with
360KB/720KB/1.2MB/1.44MB/2.88MB drives. It also has one IDE connector for IDE hard
drives supporting Ultra ATA 100/66/33. Moreover, this mainboard comes with Serial ATA II
support with four SATA II connectors which provide up to 3 Gbps data transfer rates.
The onboard High Definition Audio CODEC (ALC861) supports high quality performance
8-channel audio play (Super 7.1 Channel Audio Effect)
<See Appendix I>
.
The PM945GC also comes with an onboard 10/100 Mbps Ethernet LAN chip. There is a LAN
port on the back panel of your case that you can directly plug into an Internet cable.
There are maximal eight USB2.0/ 1.1 ports which can be set up on this mainboard.
All the information (including hardware installation and software installation) in this manual are
for reference only. The contents in this manual may be updated without notice. The company
will not assume any responsibility for any errors or mistakes within.
