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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard has a
Socket-478
supporting
Intel Pentium 4/
Prescott
with
Hyper-Threading Technology
processors with
Front-Side Bus (FSB) speeds up to
533/
400 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.
Note: It supports Hyper-Threading Technology only when the
Intel 845GV is installed. Intel 845GL supports FSB 533 MHz
only by overclocking.
This motherboard has the
Intel 845GL/GV
chipset that contains
Intel 82845 Memory Controller Hub and Intel 82801 I/O Control-
ler Hub. It supports built-in
USB 2.0
providing higher bandwidth.
It implements
Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0
and includes three UHCI host controllers that support six external
ports. This motherboard supports
AC’ 97 audio codec
and
provides
Ultra DMA
100/
66/33
function.
This motherboard has one
CNR
(Communications and Network-
ing Riser), three 32-bit PCI slots and one
AGPro
slot. There is a
full set of I/O ports including two PS/2 ports for mouse and
keyboard and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
There are one serial port, one VGA port, one parallel port, one
LAN port(optional), and six USB ports (
USB2.0
)–four back-
panel ports and onboard USB header USB3 providing two extra
ports by connecting the Extended USB Module to the
motherboard.
This motherboard is a
Micro
ATX
motherboard that uses a 4-
layer printed circuit board and measures 244 x 220mm.
