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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the G41T-R2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket
for Conroe/Presler/Wolfdale/Yorkfireld series processors for high-end business or
personal desktop markets.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports one PCI slot which is PCI v2.2 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. It supports a system bus (FSB) of 1333/1066/800 MHz.
The memory controller supports DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies of 800/667
*
. It
supports two DDR2 sockets with up to maximum memory of 8 GB. DDR2 Maximum
memory bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s in dual-channel symmetric mode assuming DDR2
800/667 MHz. One PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully
compliant to the PCI Express Gen 2.
Due to the chipset spec, this motherboard runs at DDR2 800/667 MHz
memory speed.