ECS 915GV-M10, Manual

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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing this motherboard. It is a high performance, enhanced function
motherboard that supports LGA775 Socket for latest Intel Pentium 4/Celeron D Proces-
sors.
It incorporates the 915GV Northbridge (NB) and ICH6 Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The
Northbridge on this motherboard supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 800/533
MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU.
The momory controller supports DDR2 memory
DIMM frequencies of 400MHz and 533 MHz. It supports two DDR Sockets with up to
maximum memory of 2 GB. DDR Maximum memory bandwidth of 3.2 GB/s in single-
channel is supported, or 8.5 GB/s in dual-channel interleaved mode assuming DDR2 533MHz.
High resolution graphics via one PCI Express Lite slot, intended for Graphics Interface, are
fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
The ICH6 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. In addition,
one PCI Express x1 slot is supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specifica-
tion, Revision 1.0a. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480Mb/s
bandwidth for eight USB 2.0 ports, integrates AC’97 Audio codec supporting a 6-channel
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 and LAN
controller supporting 10/100Mbit/s ethernet. One CNR (Communication and Networking
Riser) slot provides expandability for add-on peripheral cards.
It is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, COM1, LPT1, VGA, four USB ports, one optional LAN port, and
three audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line out.