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Chapter 1
Introduction of Intel 946GZ + ICH7 Motherboard Series
1-1 Features of motherboard
The Intel 946GZ+ ICH7 chipset motherboard series are based on the latest Intel 946GZ
Express Chipset technology which supports the innovative 65nm and 90nm Dual-Core Intel®
Pentium® D Processor 8 and 9 Series, Intel® Pentium® D Processor, and Intel® Core 2
Duo® (Code Name: Conroe) Processor with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology. The
motherboard is optimized to deliver innovative features and professional desktop platform
solution with the advantages of the new generation dual core Intel® Core 2 Duo® Processor for
those who demand the best experience of personal computing. Through the high bandwidth of
dual channel DDR2 667/DDR2 533MHz/DDR2 400MHz system memories which are
expandable to 4 GB and the next generation PCI Express interface for the latest graphics cards
from both NVIDIA & ATI.
The Intel 946GZ + ICH7chipset motherboard series for Intel® Core 2 Duo® Processor are
absolutely the cost-effective solution for game enthusiasts and applications, and it also meets
the demanding usage of computing of gaming, multimedia entertainment and business
applications. Moreover, the Intel 946GZ express chipset incorporates Intel Graphics Media
Accelerator 3000 to provide you incredible visual quality, faster graphics performance and
flexible display options without the need for a separate graphics card
.
The motherboards implement Intel 946GZ+ ICH7 Express Chipset which supports Front Side
Bus 1333MHz of data transferring and offers with 667MHz memory clock frequency for Dual
channel DDR2 400/DDR2 533/DDR2 667 MHz memory DIMMs to double the performance
of memory access. The motherboard is embedded with ICH7 chipset of providing one parallel
Ultra ATA 100
interface for one IDE drives and four serial ATA2 interface of 3Gb / s data
transfer rate for four serial ATA devices.
The 946GZ + ICH7 motherboard series offer one PCI-Express x16 graphics slot of 4Gbyte/sec
data transfer rate at each relative direction which gets 3.5 times of bandwidth more than AGP
8X and it’s up to a peak concurrent bandwidth of 8Gbyte/sec at full speed to guarantee the
ultimate GPU computing performance. Two 32-bit PCI slots guarantee the rich connectivity
for the I/O of peripherals. The motherboards are designed of tackling the profuse multimedia
requirements nowadays.
The motherboards provide 10 Mbit / 100Mbit Ethernet compatible LAN function by using the
Realtek RTL8102E10/100 PCI-E LAN chip.
And the embedded ALC662 chipset fully
compatible with Sound Blaster Pro
standards with providing 6-channel Azalia HD CODEC
offers you with the home cinema quality and satisfying software compatibility.
Embedded USB controller as well as capability of expanding to8 of USB2.0 functional ports
delivering 480Mb/s of rich connectivity, these motherboards meet the demands of future USB
peripherals which are also equipped with hardware monitor function on system to monitor
and protect your system and maintain your non-stop business computing.
