Syst Em Mem Ory; Dmi; Advanced Graphics And Display I Nt Erface; I Ch7- M - Intel Core 2 Duo User Manual

3 .4 .1 .1 Sy st e m M e m or y
The evaluat ion board support s DDR2 400/ 533/ 667 m ain m em ory. Two 200- pin
SODI MM connect ors ( one per channel) on t he board support unbuffered, non- ECC,
single and double- sided DDR2 400/ 533/ 667 MHz SODI MMs. These SODI MMs provide
t he abilit y t o use up t o 1 Gbit t echnology for a m axim um of 4 GByt es syst em m em ory.
Not e: Mem ory t hat ut ilizes 128 MBit t echnology is not support ed on t he I nt el
Express Chipset .
Not e: The SODI MM connect ors are on t he back side of t he board.
Ca u t ion : St andby volt age is applied t o t he SODI MM socket s when t he syst em is in t he S3 st at e.
Therefore, do not insert or rem ove SODI MMs unless t he syst em is unplugged.
3 .4 .1 .2 D M I
The I nt el
high- speed bi- direct ional chip- t o- chip int erconnect for com m unicat ion wit h t he I CH7- M.
3 .4 .1 .3 Adva n ce d Gr a ph ics a n d D ispla y I n t e r fa ce
The reference board has five opt ions for displaying video, VGA, LVDS, TVOUT, SDVO, or
PCI Express* Graphics. SDVO ( MEC) and PCI Express* Graphics are m ult iplexed on t he
sam e pins wit hin t he I nt el
Chipset cont ains one SDVO/ PCI Express* Graphics Slot ( J6C1) for a PCI Express*
com pat ible graphics card or an SDVO com pat ible graphics card, one LVDS connect or
( J5F1) , one TVOUT connect or ( J2A1) , and one 15- pin VGA connect or ( J2A2B) .
3 .4 .2 I CH 7 - M
The I CH7- M is a highly int egrat ed m ult ifunct ional I / O cont roller hub t hat provides t he
int erface t o t he syst em peripherals and int egrat es m any of t he funct ions needed in
t oday's PC plat form s. The following sect ions describe t he reference board
im plem ent at ion of t he I CH7- M feat ures, which are list ed below:
• Two PCI Express* ( x1) connect ors
• Two PCI connect ors
• LPC int erface
• Syst em m anagem ent
• ACPI * 2.0 com pliant
• Real Tim e Clock
• 652 m BGA package
• Two SATA drive connect ors
• One I DE connect or
• Eight Universal Serial Bus ( USB) 2.0 port s ( five port s provided on rear- panel, t hree
provided via headers ( J6H2, J7E2)
3 .4 .2 .1 PCI Ex pr e ss* Slot s
The reference board has t wo x1 PCI Express* slot s for add- in cards. The PCI Express*
int erface is com pliant t o t he PCI Express* Rev. 1.0a Specificat ion.
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