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Chapter 1
Introduction of P45 Express and ICH10 chipset based Motherboards
1-1 Features of Motherboard
The P45 Express and ICH10 chipset motherboard series are based on Intel P45 Express chipset
and ICH10 chipsets technology which supports the innovative 45nm and 65nm Quad-Core,
Dual-Core Intel® Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo processors, Intel® Pentium Dual Core, Intel®
Celeron Dual Core Conroe processors and Intel® Celeron 400 Conroe-L processors.
The P45 Express and ICH10 chipset Based motherboard series deliver the revolutionary levels
of performance enabling vivid, high-definition experiences and multi-tasking responsiveness
from state-of-the-art Intel dual-core and quad-core technologies and AMD CrossFire
Technology through the high bandwidth of dual channel DDR2 800 / 667MHz system
memories which are expandable to 16GB and the next generation PCI Express interface for
the latest graphics cards from both AMD and nVidea. The P45 Express and ICH10 chipset
motherboard series are absolutely the ultimate solution for game enthusiasts and applications,
and it also meets the demanding usage of computing of gaming, multimedia entertainment
and business applications.
The INTEL P45 Express and ICH10 chipset motherboard series are embedded with ICH10
chipset of providing six serial ATA2 interface of 3.0 Gb / s data transfer rate for six serial
ATA devices. More over, the motherboard provides also extra 1 Ultra ATA interface for two
IDE devices of 100 MB / s data transfer rate and two serial ATA interface of 3.0 Gb / s data
transfer rate for two serial ATA devices with JMicron 363 serial ATA RAID controller which
supports RAID 0, 1 functions.
The P45 Express and ICH10 chipset Based motherboard provides Gigabit LAN function by
using the Realtek RTL8111C PCI Gigabit LAN which supports 10M / 100M / 1Gbps data
transfer rate. Embedded 8-channel ALC888 HD CODEC is fully compatible with Sound
Blaster Pro
®
standards that offer you with the home cinema quality and absolutely software
compatibility.
The P45 Express chipset Based motherboard series offer two PCI-Express2.0 x16 graphics slots
(One PCI-Express2.0 x16@16lane graphics slot offers 8 Gbyte/sec data transfer rate at each
relative direction which get 7 times of bandwidth more than AGP8X and up to 16Gbyte/sec
concurrent bandwidth at full speed, the other PCI-Express x16@8lane graphics slots deliver
up to 4Gbyte/sec data transfer rate at each relative direction .These two graphics slots are
fully compatible with the latest AMD CrossFire Technology in x8 lane CrossFire
mode to guarantee the fully operational Bi-GPUs graphics function and avoid the possible
CrossFire installation error. Two PCI Express x1 I/O slots offer 1Gbyte/sec concurrently, over
7 times more bandwidth than PCI at 133Mbye/sec, tackling the most demanding multimedia
tasks nowadays. Three 32-bit PCI slots guarantee the rich connectivity for the I/O of
peripherals.
Embedded USB controllers as well as capability of expanding to 12 of USB2.0 functional
ports delivering 480Mb/s bandwidth of rich connectivity, these motherboards meet the future
