Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS 945GZT-M Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the 945GZT-M motherboard. This motherboard is a high perfor-
mance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket Intel
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Core 2 Duo/Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron D processors for high-end business or personal
desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the 945GZ Northbridge (NB) and ICH7 Southbridge (SB)
chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 800/533 MHz using
a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports DDR2 memory DIMM frequen-
cies of 533/400. It supports two DDR2 Sockets with up to maximum memory of 2 GB.
DDR2 Maximum memory bandwidth of 8.5 Gb/s in dual-channel interleaved mode assuming
DDR2 533 MHz. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express slot, intended for Graphics
Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI v2.3 compliant. It implements
an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for eight USB 2.0 ports.
One onboard IDE connector supports 2 IDE devices in Ultra ATA 100/66/33 mode. The
Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting four SATA ports with maxi-
mum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each.
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including
PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, COM1, one optional LPT port, one VGA port, four
USB ports, one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
Introducing the Motherboard