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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the G41T-M7 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket
Intel Core 2 Quad
*
/Intel
®
Core
TM
2 Duo/Pentium
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
Dual-Core/
Celeron ® 400 series processors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports one PCI slot which is PCI v2.3 compliant. In addi-
tion, one PCI Express x1 slot is supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express Base
Specification revision 1.0. 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 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 VGA 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 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller
supports DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies of 1066/800. 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 1066/800 MHz. High
resolution graphics via one PCI Express slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully
compliant to the PCI Express Gen 1.
*This board support 65W TDP Core 2 Quad Processors.