ECS 915-M5, Manual

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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the 915-M5 motherboard. This motherboard is a high perfor-
mance, enhanced function motherboard that supports LGA775 Socket for latest Intel
Pentium 4/Celeron processors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard may support 915GV Northbridge (NB) and ICH6 Southbridge (SB) chipsets.
The 915GV Northbridge on this motherboard supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of
800/533 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports DDR
memory DIMM frequencies of 333MHz and 400 MHz. It supports four DDR Sockets with
up to maximum memory of 4 GB. DDR Maximum memory bandwidth of 3.2 GB/s in single-
channel mode and 6.4 GB/s in dual-channel mode is supported. One optional PCI Express
Lite slot is used to install an external PCI Express graphics card.
The ICH6 Southbridge on this motherboard supports three PCI slots which are PCI 2.3
compliant. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480Mb/s bandwidth
for eight USB 2.0 ports, integrates Azalia CODEC that features a 8-channel High Definition
audio output. One onboard IDE connector supports 2 IDE devices in ATA-100/66 mode.
The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller that is SATA v1.0 compliant,
supporting four SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 150 MB/s each.
The 915-M5 motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, COM1, LPT, four USB ports, one VGA
port, one optional LAN port, one optional 1394 port, and audio jacks for microphone,
line-in, and 8-ch line-out.