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Chapter 1
Introduction of 945 Motherboard Series
1-1 Feature of motherboard
The 945 motherboard series are based on Intel 945P / 945G Express chipset and Intel
FW82801GR ICH chipset technology which supports the innovative 90nm Dual-Core Intel®
Pentium® D Processor 840, 830, and 820 with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology. The 945
motherboard series provide discreet (945P Express Chipset Based motherboard series, such as
945PDG.) and integrated GMA 950 (Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is only for the 945G
Express Chipset Based Motherboard Series, such as 945GDG.) solutions to deliver the
outstanding system performance with of the benefits from reliable multi-tasking dual core
Intel® Pentium® D Processor through the high bandwidth of dual channel DDR2 667MHz
memory which is expandable to 4.0GB DIMM support, the 945 motherboard series meet the
demanding usage of computing today and the future..
These motherboards implement Intel 945P / 945G Express Chipset which supports Front Side
Bus 533MHz / 800MHz / 1066MHz of data transferring and offer with 133MHz / 166MHz /
200 MHz / 266 MHz memory clock frequency for Dual channel DDR2 400/533/667MHz
DIMMs to increase memory performance. The whole motherboard series are embedded with
ICH7R chipset to provide with one parallel Ultra ATA 100
interface for optical drives and
four serial ATA2 interface of 3.0Gb / s data transfer rate with RAID0, 1, 0+1, and RAID10
functions.
945G / P motherboard series are designed with innovative Bi-GPU-Link technology which
implements one PCI Express x16 slot and one PCI Express x4 slot for the graphic interfaces
nowadays, and it offers full bandwidth of 16-lane and quarter bandwidth of 16-lane for the
latest released PCI Express x16 compatible VGA cards of both NVIDIA and ATI. By running
dual PCI Express graphic cards simultaneously, this motherboard provides the ability to
connect to as many as four separate displays. Moreover the 945G motherboard series are also
embedded with the integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics core that offers responsive graphics
performance and stunning video playback.
945G / P motherboard series provide optional Gigabit LAN function by using the Marvell
88E8001 10 /100/1000 LAN NIC which supports 10M / 100M / 1Gbps data transfer rate.
Embedded 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC is fully compatible with Sound Blaster
Pro
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standards that offers you with the home cinema quality and absolutely software
compatibility.
Embedded USB controller as well as capability of expanding to 8 of USB2.0 functional ports
delivering 480Mb/s of rich connectivity, these motherboards meet the future USB demands
which are also equipped with hardware monitor function on system to monitor and protect
your system and maintain your non-stop business computing.