Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS X48T-A Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the X48T-A motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket
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Intel Yorkfield/Wolfdale/Core 2 Extreme/Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo processors
for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the Intel X48 Northbridge (NB) and Intel ICH9-R
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) fre-
quency of 1600/1333/1066/800 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory
controller supports DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies of 1600/1333/1066/800. It
supports four DDR3 sockets with up to maximum memory of 8 GB. DDR3 Maximum
memory bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s in dual-channel symmetric mode assuming DDR3
1600 MHz. High resolution graphics via two PCI Express slots, intended for Graphics
Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 2.0. It
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supports the ATI CrossFireX Technology that allows you to install GPU graphics
cards.
The ICH9-R Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI v2.3 compliant. In
addition, two PCI Express x1 slots are supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express
Base Specification, Revision 1.1. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that
provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for twelve USB 2.0 ports (six USB ports and three USB
headers support additional six USB ports). The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA
host controller, supporting six SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/
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s each. It supports Intel Matrix Storage Technology, providing both AHCI and RAID
0, 1, 5 and 10 configuration.
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, COM, one RCA SPDIFI port, one
RCA SPDIFO port, one optical SPDIFO port, one ESATA port, six USB ports, two
LAN ports and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6-ch line-out. Additionally,
one Heat pipe heat sink is supported for NB & CPU heat dissipation.
Introducing the Motherboard