Product Specifications - Gigabyte GA-EP43C-DS3 User Manual

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Product Specifications

CPU
Front Side Bus
Chipset
Memory
Audio
LAN
Expansion Slots
Storage Interface
IEEE 1394
GA-EP43C-DS3 Motherboard
Support for an Intel
Intel Core 2 Quad processor/Intel
®
TM
Intel Pentium
® ®
in the LGA 775 package
(Go to GIGABYTE's website for the latest CPU support list.)
L2 cache varies with CPU
1600(O.C.)/1333/1066/800 MHz FSB
North Bridge: Intel
South Bridge: Intel
DDR3:
2 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 4 GB of system memory
Dual channel memory architecture
Support for DDR3 1600/1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules
DDR2:
4 x 1.8V DDR2 DIMM sockets supporting up to 16 GB of system memory
Dual channel memory architecture
Support for DDR2 1066/800/667 MHz memory modules
(Note: Mixed mode, populating DDR2 and DDR3 memory modules simulta-
neously is not supported. Go to GIGABYTE's website for the latest memory
support list.)
Realtek ALC888 codec
High Definition Audio
2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
Support for S/PDIF In/Out
Support for CD In
1 x Realtek 8111C chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)
1 x PCI Express x16 slot
3 x PCI Express x1 slots
3 x PCI slots
South Bridge:
- 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices
JMicron 368 chip:
- 1 x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices
iTE IT8718 chip:
- 1 x floppy disk drive connector supporting up to 1 floppy disk drive
T.I. TSB43AB23 chip
Up to 3 IEEE 1394a ports (2 on the back panel, 1 via the IEEE 1394a bracket
connected to the internal IEEE 1394a header)
Core 2 Extreme processor/
®
TM
®
Dual-Core processor/Intel
P43 Express Chipset
®
ICH10
®
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Core 2 Duo processor/
TM
Celeron processor
® ®
(Note 1)