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Chapter 1
Introduction of P45 Express and ICH10 chipset based Motherboard
1-1 Features of Motherboard
The P45 Express and ICH10 chipset motherboard series are based on Intel P45 Express chipset
and ICH10 chipsets technology which supports the innovative 45nm and 65nm Quad-Core,
Dual-Core Intel® Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo (Code Name: Conroe) processors and Intel®
Celeron 400 Conroe-L processors.
The P45 Express and ICH10 chipset Based motherboard series deliver the revolutionary levels
of performance enabling vivid, high-definition experiences and multi-tasking responsiveness
from state-of-the-art Intel dual-core and quad-core technologies and ATI CrossFireX
Technology and the next generation PCI Express interface for the latest graphics cards from
both AMD and NVIDIA. The P45 Express and ICH10 chipset motherboard series are
absolutely the ultimate solution for game enthusiasts and applications, and it also meets the
demanding usage of computing of gaming, multimedia entertainment and business
applications.
The INTEL P45 Express and ICH10 chipset motherboard series are embedded with ICH10
chipset of providing six serial ATA2 interface of 3.0 Gb / s data transfer rate for six serial
ATA devices. The P45 Express and ICH10 chipset Based motherboard provides Gigabit LAN
function by using the Gigabit LAN chip which supports 10M / 100M / 1000M/bps data
transfer rate. Embedded 8-channel ALC883 HD CODEC is fully compatible with Sound
Blaster Pro
standards that offer you with the home cinema quality and absolutely software
compatibility.
The P45 Express chipset Based motherboard series offer two PCI-Express x16 graphics slots
One PCI-Express2.0 x16@16lane graphics slot offers 8 Gbyte/sec data transfer rate at each
relative direction which get 7 times of bandwidth more than AGP8X and up to 16Gbyte/sec
concurrent bandwidth at full speed(
Only when Switch card can be inserted into PE4, the PE1
slot can up to the speed, if not, PE1 and PE4 can only reach to the data transfer rate the same
as 8Lane
). These two graphics slots are fully compatible with the latest ATI CrossFireX
Technology(when Switch Card is out and insert two graphics card into PE1 and PE4) and
avoid the possible CrossFire installation error. Two PCI Express1.0a x1 I/O slots offer
512Mbyte/sec concurrently, over 3.5 times more bandwidth than PCI at 133Mbye/sec,
tackling the most demanding multimedia tasks nowadays. Two 32-bit PCI slots guarantee the
rich connectivity for the I/O of peripherals.
Embedded USB controllers as well as capability of expanding to 10 of USB2.0 functional
ports delivering 480Mb/s bandwidth of rich connectivity, these motherboards meet the future
USB demands which are also equipped with hardware monitor function on system to monitor
and protect your system and maintain your non-stop business computing.
