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Motherboard User’s Guide
Serial ATA
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Serial ATA Connector
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Transfer rate exceeding best ATA (
3.0 Gb/s
) with scalability to higher
rates
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Low pin count for both host and devices
Onboard IDE channels
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One IDE Connector
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Supports PIO (Programmable Input/Output) and DMA (Direct Memory
Access) modes
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Supports IDE Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of
100
/66/
33 MB/sec
Expansion Slots
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One 32-bit PCI slot
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One
PCI Express x16
slot
•
One
PCI Express x1
slot
Memory Support
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Two 240-pin DIMM sockets for DDR3 1333/1066 SDRAM
*
with Dual-
channel architecture.
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Maximum installed memory is 4 GB
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System Memory Controller Support: DDR3 SDRAM with up to
maximum memory of 4 GB.
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PCI Express Graphics Interface Support: One PCI Express x16 port
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PCI Bus Interface Support: PCI Revision 2.3 Specification at 33MHz
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Integrade Serial ATA Host Controller with Data transfer rates up to 3.0
Gb/s
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Intgrated IDE Controller: Ultra DMA-100/66/33 Bus Master EIDE
Controller
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USB 2.0: Integrated USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to eight functional
ports
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High Performance Host Interface: Supports
Intel Core 2 Quad
/Intel
®
Core
TM
2 Duo/Pentium
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
400 series
processors family with FSB1333/1066 MHz
Chipset
The Intel
®
G41 Northbridge (NB) and Intel
®
ICH7 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are
based on an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and perfor-
mance.
*
Due to the chipset spec, this motherboard runs at DDR3 1066/800 MHz
memory speed. Please refer to the memory QVL in page 11~12.