ECS 945GCT-M2/1333, Manual

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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the 945GCT-M2/1333 motherboard. This motherboard is a
high performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775
socket Intel Core
TM 2 Duo/*Pentium D/*Pentium 4/Celeron D processors for high-
end business or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the 945GC Northbridge (NB) and ICH7 Southbridge
(SB) chipsets.
The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 1333/
1066/800/533 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports
DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies of 667/533/400. It supports two DDR2 Sockets
with up to maximum memory of 2 GB DDR2 Maximum memory bandwidth of 10.7
GB/s in dual-channel interleaved mode assuming DDR2 667 MHz. High resolution
graphics via one PCI Express slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant
to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
* Under ECS validation, this motherboard is capable to support FSB 1333 MHz.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI v2.3 compliant. It
implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for
eight USB 2.0 ports (four USB ports and two USB 2.0 headers support additional four
USB ports).
One onboard IDE connector supports 2 IDE devices in Ultra ATA 100/
66/33 mode. The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting four
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, COM1, one VGA port, four USB
ports, one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
“*” stands for this motherboard is ready to support Pentium D/ Pentium 4
processors.