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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the G41T-M6 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket
Intel
®
Core
TM
2 Quad/Core
TM
2 Duo/Pentium
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
400 series pro-
cessors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports one PCI slot which is PCI v2.3 compliant. In addi-
tion, two PCI Express x1 slots are supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express
Base Specification revision 1.0a. 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
two IDE devices in Ultra ATA100/66/33 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, one optional DVI port, one VGA
port, one optional LPT port, four USB ports, one LAN port, and audio jacks for
microphone, line-in and line-out.
The motherboard incorporates the Intel
®
G41 Northbridge (NB) and Intel
®
ICH7
Southbridge (SB) chipsets.
The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) fre-
quency of 1333/1066/800 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory con-
troller supports DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies of 1066. It supports two DDR3
sockets with up to maximum memory of 8 GB. DDR3 Maximum memory bandwidth
of 12.8 GB/s in dual-channel symmetric mode assuming DDR3 1066 MHz. High
resolution graphics via one PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is
fully compliant to the PCI Express Gen 1.
