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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing 945GSED-I motherboard of great performance and with
enhanced function. This motherboard has onboard Intel
®
Atom
TM
Processor N270
with a Mini-ITX form factor of 170 x 170 mm.
The motherboard incorporates the 945GSE Northbridge (NB) and ICH7-M
Southbridge (SB) chipsets.
The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) fre-
quency of 533 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports
DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies of 533/400. It supports one DDR2 socket with up
to maximum memory of
2
GB.
The ICH7-M Southbridge on this motherboard supports one PCI slot which is PCI
v2.2 compliant. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480 Mb/
s bandwidth for six USB 2.0 ports (four USB ports and one USB 2.0 headers support
additional two 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, one LPT port, one COM port, one
VGA port, four USB ports, two LAN ports and audio jacks for microphone and line-
out.