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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the 848P-A7 motherboard. This motherboard is a high perfor-
mance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 Socket Intel
Pentium 4/Celeron D/Pentium D processors for high-end business or personal desktop
markets.
The motherboard incorporates the 848P Northbridge (NB) and ICH5 Southbridge (SB)
chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 800/533 MHz with
maximum theoretical BW of 6.4 GB/s. The momory controller supports DDR memory
DIMM frequencies of 400/333/266 MHz. It supports two DDR Sockets with up to maxi-
mum memory of 2 GB. DDR Maximum memory bandwidth of 3.2 GB/s in single-channel
mode is supported. One AGP interface supports AGP 3.0 including 8X/4X AGP Data Trans-
fers and 8X/4X Fast Write Protocol.
The ICH5 Southbridge supports five PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. It accomodates
eight USB 2.0 ports for Serial Transfers at maximum 480 Mb/s. This motherboard complies
with AC’97 2.3 codecs and supports up to six channels of PCM audio output (full AC3
decode). Two onboard IDE connectors support 4 IDE devices in Ultra ATA100/66/33 mode.
The Southbridge integrates two Serial ATA host controllers that is SATA v1.0 compliant,
supporting two SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 1.5 Gb/s each.
This motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including
PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, one serial port, one parallel port, four USB ports, one
optional LAN port, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.