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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard has a
LGA775
socket
for latest
Intel Pentium 4/Celeron
processors with
Hyper-Threading Technology
and Front-Side Bus (FSB)
speeds up to
800
MHz. Hyper-Threading Technology, designed to take
advantage of the multitasking features in Windows XP, gives you the power to
do more things at once.
This motherboard integrates the
Intel 915GV/915GL
Northbridge along with
Intel I/O Controller Hub 6 (ICH6)
that supports the
Serial ATA
interface for
high-performance and mainstream desktop PCs; the built-in
USB 2.0
providing
higher bandwidth, implementing
Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision
2.0
and is compliant with
UHCI 1.1
and
EHCI 1.0
.
It supports 6-channel
AC’97 Audio Codec
and provides one
IDE Ultra DMA
100/66
channel. It has one
PCI-E Ultra slot
, one
PCI Express x1
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 VGA port, one serial port, one parallel port, one LAN port
(optional), six audio jacks for micropone, 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 a
Micro ATX
motherboard and has power connectors for an ATX power
supply.
Note
: 915GV chipset can only support 256-Mb, 512-Mb and 1-Gb DDR
technologies for x8 and x16 device, NOT support 128-Mb DDR
technology. That is, 256 MB Double Side Memory Module & 128 MB
Single Side Memory Module are NOT support.
Key Features
The key features of this motherboard include:
LGA775 Socket Processor Support
•
Supports the latest
Intel Pentium 4/Celeron Series
processors with
Hyper-Threading Technology
•
Supports up to
800 MHz
Front-Side Bus
Note: 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.
Chipset
There are
Intel 915GV/915GL Northbridge
and
Intel I/O Controller Hub 6
(ICH6)
in the chipsets in accordance with an innovative and scalable architecture
with proven reliability and performance.
