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Introducing the Motherboard
Feature
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Accommodates Intel
®
Yorkfield/Wolfdale/Core
TM
2 Quad/Core
TM
2 Duo/
Pentium
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
4xx Series
proces-
sors
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Supports a system bus (FSB) of 1333/1066/800 MHz
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Supports “Hyper-Threading” technology CPU
The motherboard uses an LGA775 type of Intel
®
Yorkfield/Wolfdale/Core
TM
2
Quad/Core
TM
2 Duo/Pentium
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
4xx Se-
ries
processors that carries the following features:
Processor
The G31 Northbridge (NB) and ICH7 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are based on an
innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and performance.
Chipset
ICH7 (SB)
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Supports DDR2 800/667 DDR2 SDRAM with Dual-channel architecture
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Accommodates four unbuffered DIMMs
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Up to 1 GB per DIMM with maximum memory size up to 4 GB
Memory
G31 (NB)
“Hyper-Threading” technology enables the operating system into thinking it’s
hooked up to two processors, allowing two threads to be run in parallel, both on
separate “logical” processors within the same physical processor.
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Supports 36-bit host bus addressing, allowing the CPU
to access the entire 64 GB of the memory address
space
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2 GB/s point-to-point Direct Media Interface (DMI) to
ICH7 (1 GB/s each direction)
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Supports 512 Mb and 1 Gb DDR2 DRAM technologies
for x8 and x16 devices
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One, 16-lane PCI Express port intended for Graphics
Attach, compatible to the PCI Express* Base Specifi-
cation revision 1.1
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Enhanced DMA Controller, interrupt controller, and timer
functions
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Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification, Revi-
sion 1.0a
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Compliant with PCI v2.3 specification
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Integrated SATA 3.0 Gb/s Host Controller
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Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to
eight USB 2.0 ports
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Integrated IDE controller supports Ultra ATA 100/66/33
Audio
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5.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec
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ADCs support 44.1k/48k/96kHz sample rate
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Meets Microsoft WLP 3.08 Vista premium and mobile PCs audio re-
quirements
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Direct Sound 3D
TM
compatible