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Introducing the Motherboard
Feature
Processor
This motherboard uses an LGA775 type of Intel ® Core ™ 2 Extreme/Core ™ 2 Quad/
Core
™
2 Duo/Pentium
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
400
series
that
carries th e following features:
• Accommodates Intel ® Core ™ 2 Extreme/Core ™ 2 Quad/Core ™ 2 Duo/
Pentium
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
400 series proces-
sors
• Latest Intel
®
45nm Multi-Core processors
• Supports a system bus (FSB) of 1333/1066/800 MHz
Chipset
• Supports DDR3 1333 (OC)/1066/800 DDR3 SDRAM with Dual-channel
architecture
• Accommodates two unbuffered DIMMs
• 2 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM socket support up to 16 GB
Memory
The G41 Northbridge (NB) and ICH7 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are based on an
innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and performance.
• Enhanced DMA Controller, interrupt controller, and timer
functions
• Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification, Revi-
sion 1.0a
• Compliant with PCI v2.3 specification
• Integrated SATA 3.0 Gb/s Host Controller
• Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to
eight USB 2.0 ports
• Integrated IDE controller supports Ultra ATA 100/66/33
• Supports 36-bit host bus addressing, allowing the CPU
to access the entire 64 GB of the memory address
space
• 2 GB/s point-to-point Direct Media Interface (DMI) to
ICH7 (1 GB/s each direction)
• Supports 2-GB, 1-Gb, 512 Mb DDR3 DRAM technolo-
gies for x8 and x16 devices
• One, 16-lane (x16) PCI Express port intended for ex-
ternal device attach, fully compatible to the PCI Ex-
press Gen 1
• An integrated graphics device (IGD) delivering cost
competitive 3D, 2D and video capabilities
• Microsoft DX10 and 128MB share memory are sup-
ported
G41 (NB)
ICH7 (SB)