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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the 965PLT-A motherboard. This motherboard is a high perfor-
mance, 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 946GZ Northbridge (NB) and ICH7 Southbridge (SB)
chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 1066/800/533 MHz
using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports DDR2 memory DIMM
frequencies of 667/533. It supports two DDR2 Sockets with up to maximum memory of 4
GB. DDR2 memory bandwidth of 5.3 GB/s in single-channel is supported, or 10.7 GB/s in
dual-channel interleaved mode assuming DDR2 667. In addition, two PCI-E slots for Graph-
ics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.1.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports three 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 480 Mb/s
bandwidth for eight USB 2.0 ports. One onboard IDE connector supports 2 IDE devices in
Ultra ATA100/66/33 mode. The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller, sup-
porting four SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each.
This motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including
PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, COM1, VGA port, four USB ports, one optional LAN
port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6/8-channel (optional) line-out.