9
1 Desktop Board Features
This chapter briefly describes the main features of Intel
®
Desktop Board D945GRW. Table 1
summarizes the major features of the desktop board.
Table 1.
Feature Summary
Form Factor
PicoBTX (10.5-inches x 8.0-inches)
Processor
Support for an Intel
®
processor in the LGA775 package
Main Memory
•
Four 240-pin, 1.8 V SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
•
667/533 MHz single or dual channel DDR2 SDRAM interface
•
Designed to support up to 4 GB of system memory
NOTE:
System resources (such as PCI and PCI Express*) require physical
memory address locations that reduce available memory addresses above 3 GB.
This may result in less than 4 GB of memory being available to the operating
system and applications. For the latest list of tested memory, refer to the Intel
World Wide Web site at:
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/
Chipset
Intel
®
945G Express Chipset consisting of:
•
Intel
®
82945G Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) with Direct
Media Interface
•
Intel
®
82801GB I/O Controller Hub (ICH7)
•
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Flash or Firmware Hub (FWH)
Graphics
Intel 945G Express Chipset with Intel
®
Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Audio
•
Intel 945G Express Chipset
•
Intel
®
High Definition Audio interface
•
Realtek* codec
Expansion Capabilities
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One PCI Express x16 connector
Peripheral Interfaces
•
Up to eight USB 2.0 ports
⎯
Six ports routed to the back panel
⎯
Two ports routed to an onboard USB header
•
Two Serial ATA (SATA) channels (3.0 Gb/s), via the ICH7, one device per
channel
•
One IDE interface with ATA-66/100 support (two devices)
•
One VGA connector
•
One parallel port
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One serial port
•
PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports
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