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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the 945GCD-I230 motherboard of great performance and
with enhanced function. The motherboard has onboard Intel Diamondville CPU with
a Mini-ITX form factor of 170 x 170 mm.
The motherboard incorporates the 945GC Northbridge (NB) and ICH7 Southbridge
(SB) chipsets.
The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 533
MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports DDR2 memory
DIMM frequency of 533. It supports one DDR2 socket with up to maximum memory
of
2 GB.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports one PCI slot which is PCI 2.3 compliant. It imple-
ments an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for 8 USB 2.0
ports (4 USB ports and 2 USB 2.0 headers support additional 4 USB ports).
The
Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting two SATA ports with
maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each.
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, COM, LPT1, one VGA port, four
USB ports, one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.