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Chapter 1
Introduction of Intel 945GC Motherboard Series
1-1 Features of motherboard
The Intel 945GC chipset motherboard series are based on the latest Intel 945GC Express
Chipset and Intel FW82801GB ICH 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 400/DDR2 533MHz/DDR2 667MHz system
memories which are expandable to 2.0GB and the next generation PCI Express interface for
the latest graphics cards from both NVIDIA & ATI.
The Intel 945GC chipset 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 945GC express chipset incorporates Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
which support the Microsoft* DirectX* 9,Vertex Shader 3.0 and Transform and Lighting
provides incredible visual quality, faster graphics performance and flexible display options
without the need for a separate graphics card
.
The motherboards implement Intel 945GC Express Chipset which supports Front Side Bus
1333MHz/1066MHz/800MHz
of data transferring and offers with 200MHz/266/333MHz
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 two IDE drives and four
serial ATA2 interface of 3.0Gb / s data transfer rate for four serial ATA devices.
The 945GC 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 optional 10 / 100 or 10/ 100/1000 Ethernet compatible LAN
function by using the Realtek RTL8100C 10/100 LAN NIC,
Realtek RTL8101E-GR 10/100
LAN NIC
or Realtek RTL8110SC 10/100/1000 LAN NIC which supports 10M / 100M bps or
10M 100M /1000M bps data transfer rate.
And the embedded Realtek ALC880 , ALC883 or
ALC662-GR chipset fully compatible with Sound Blaster Pro
standards with providing
optional Azalia 8-channel Audio CODEC or 6-channel AC 97 CODEC offers you with the
home cinema quality and satisfying software compatibility.
