Mainboard Specification - Nvidia nforce 570 User Manual

Introduction

1-3 Mainboard Specification

Processor
Support Socket-AM2 (940 pin) based AMD Athlon-X2/Athlon-64/Sempron processors
Support 2.0GTs 16X16 wide Hyper Transport bus
Support VMM (Virtualization-Machine-Monitoring)
Chipset
nVidia nForce 570 or nVidia nForce 550
Main Memory
Four 240-pin unbuffered non-ECC DDR2 SDRAM DIMM sockets
Support single-sided or double-sided 1.8v DDR2-533/667/800 DIMMs with dual channel architecture in
256Mb/512Mb/1Gb technologies
Supports up to 16GB memory size
Expansion Slots
Three PCI connectors compliant with PCI v2.3
Two PCI-E (x1) connectors compliant with PCI Express 1.0a
One PCI-E (x16) connectors compliant with PCI Express 1.0a
USB
Ten USB connectors compliant with USB2.0 from embedded USB controller (4 connectors at rear panel)
LAN
Two Gigabit Ethernet from onboard Realtek RTL8111B PCI-E Controller (Supported in the NVIDIA nForce 570
chipset)
One Gigabit Ethernet from onboard Realtek RTL8111B PCI-E Controller (Supported in the NVIDIA nForce 550
chipset)
P-ATA IDE
One IDE interface (up to 2 IDE devices) with UDMA-33/66/100/133 support from embedded IDE controller
S-ATA RAID
Six S-ATA II ports with up to 300MB/s bandwidth with RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 (Supported in the NVIDIA nForce
570 chipset)
Four S-ATA II ports with up to 300MB/s bandwidth with RAID 0, 1, 0+1 (Supported in the NVIDIA nForce
550 chipset)
I/O
Onboard EPoX EP1308 LPC bus I/O controller
Legacy peripheral interface for PS/2 keyboard & mouse, FDD, Parallel, Serial, and IrDA (v1.0 compliant)
Support Hardware Monitoring for fan speed monitoring and CPU temperature sensing
Intelligent fan speed control for CPU-fan (PWM) and Chassis-fan for quiet operation
BIOS
Flash EEPROM with Award Plug&Play BIOS
Support EZ Boot for fast bootable device selection
Support Magic Health for system hardware status report during system boot-up
Support Ghost BIOS for BIOS Recovery
Audio
6 or 8 channel audio from onboard Realtek ALC8xx High Definition audio compliant CODEC
- Support CD-In
- Support Jack detection for fool-proof audio device installation
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