Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS P965T-A Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the motherboard. This motherboard is a high performance, en-
hanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket Intel Core™2 Ex-
treme/Core TM 2 Duo/Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron D processors for high-end business or
personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the P965 Northbridge (NB) and ICH8 Southbridge (SB)
chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 1066/800/533 MHz
using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports DDR2 memory DIMM
frequencies of 800/667/533. It supports four DDR2 Sockets with up to maximum memory
of 8 GB. DDR2 maximum memory bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s in dual-channel interleaved
mode assuming DDR2 800. High resolution graphics via two PCI Express slot, intended for
Graphics Interface, are fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.1.
The ICH8 Southbridge supports three PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. In addition,
two PCI Express x1 slots are supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specifica-
tion, Revision 1.1. It implements two EHCI compliant interface that supports ten USB 2.0
ports. This motherboard complies with Intel High Definition Audio codec supporting up to
8-channel. Five SATA II ports, with maximum transder rate up to 3.0Gb/s each, are sup-
ported by the Southbridge and an integrated SATA host controller
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including
PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, COM1, LPT2, four USB ports, one optional LAN
port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 8-ch line out.
Introducing the Motherboard