Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS 946GZT-M2 Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the 946GZT-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high perfor-
mance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket Intel
Core TM 2 Duo/Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron D processors for high-end business or personal
desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the 946GZ 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 667/533. It supports two DDR2 Sockets with up to maximum memory of 4 GB.
DDR2 memory bandwidth of 10.7 GB/s in dual-channel interleaved mode assuming DDR2
667. In addition, one PCI Express x16 slot for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the
PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.1a.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. In addition, one
PCI Express x1 slot is supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification,
Revision 1.0a. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480Mb/s band-
width for eight USB 2.0 ports. One onboard IDE connector supports 2 IDE devices in Ultra
ATA100/66/33 mode. The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting
four SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each.
This motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including
PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, COM1, LPT1, VGA1, four USB ports, one optional
LAN port, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line out.
Introducing the Motherboard