Desktop Board Features; Feature Summary - Intel D945GRW - Desktop Board Motherboard Product Manual

1 Desktop Board Features

This chapter briefly describes the main features of Intel
summarizes the major features of the desktop board.
Table 1.

Feature Summary

Form Factor
Processor
Main Memory
Chipset
Graphics
Audio
Expansion Capabilities
Peripheral Interfaces
PicoBTX (10.5-inches x 8.0-inches)
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Support for an Intel processor in the LGA775 package
• Four 240-pin, 1.8 V SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
• 667/533 MHz single or dual channel DDR2 SDRAM interface
• Designed to support up to 4 GB of system memory
System resources (such as PCI and PCI Express*) require physical
NOTE:
memory address locations that reduce available memory addresses above 3 GB.
This may result in less than 4 GB of memory being available to the operating
system and applications. For the latest list of tested memory, refer to the Intel
World Wide Web site at: http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/
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Intel 945G Express Chipset consisting of:
• Intel
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82945G Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) with Direct
Media Interface
• Intel
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82801GB I/O Controller Hub (ICH7)
• Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Flash or Firmware Hub (FWH)
Intel 945G Express Chipset with Intel
• Intel 945G Express Chipset
• Intel
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High Definition Audio interface
• Realtek* codec
• One PCI Express x16 connector
• Up to eight USB 2.0 ports
⎯ Six ports routed to the back panel
⎯ Two ports routed to an onboard USB header
• Two Serial ATA (SATA) channels (3.0 Gb/s), via the ICH7, one device per
channel
• One IDE interface with ATA-66/100 support (two devices)
• One VGA connector
• One parallel port
• One serial port
• PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports
Desktop Board D945GRW. Table 1
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Graphics Media Accelerator 950
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