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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard has a
LGA 775 socket
for latest
Intel® Core
TM
2 Duo/Celeron
®
D
processors with
Hyper-Threading Technology
and Front-Side Bus (FSB)
speeds up to
1333/1066/800/533
MHz. Hyper-Threading Technology, designed to
take advantage of the multitasking features gives you the power to do more things
at once.
This motherboard integrates the
945GC
Northbridge along with
Intel I/O Con-
troller Hub 7 (ICH7)
that supports the
Serial ATA
interface for high-perfor-
mance and mainstream desktop PCs; the built-in
USB 2.0
providing higher band-
width and implementing
Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0.
It supports 6-channel
High Definition Audio Codec
and provides one
IDE Ultra
ATA
100/66/33
channel. It has one
PCIEX16
slot and two 32-bit
PCI
slots. There
is a full set of I/O ports including two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard, one serial
port, one optional LAN port, one VGA port, audio jacks for microphone, line-in
and line-out, and four back-panel USB 2.0 ports. In addition, onboard USB headers
provide extra ports by connecting the extended USB module to the motherboard.
It is an
Micro ATX
motherboard and has power connectors for a ATX power
supply.
Key Features
The key features of this motherboard include:
LGA775 Socket Processor Support
•
Supports the latest
Intel® Core
TM
2 Duo/ Celeron
®
D
processors with
Hyper-Threading Technology
•
Supports up to
1333/1066/800/533 MHz
Front-Side Bus
Chipset
There are
945GC Northbridge
and
Intel I/O Controller Hub 7 (ICH7)
in the
chipsets in accordance with an innovative and scalable architecture with proven
reliability and performance.
Note:
1.
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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Hyper-Threading Technology
2. Under ECS validation, this motherboard is able to support FSB 1333
MHz.