Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS P45T-AD3 Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the P45T-AD3 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 processors for high-end business or per-
sonal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the Intel Eaglelake P45 Northbridge (NB) and Intel
ICH10R Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB)
frequency of 1600(overclocking)/1333/1066 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU.
The memory controller supports DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies of
1600(overclocking)/1333/1066/800. It supports four DDR3 sockets with maximum
memory size of 8 GB. High resolution graphics via two PCI Express x16 slots,
intended for Graphics Interface, are fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Speci-
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fication Revision 2.0. It supports the ATI CrossFireX Technology that allows you
to install GPU graphics cards.
The ICH10R Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI v2.3 compliant. It
implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for
twelve USB 2.0 ports (six USB ports and three USB 2.0 headers support additional six
USB ports). One onboard IDE connector supports two IDE devices in Ultra ATA 133/
100/66/33 mode. The Southbridge supports six SATA ports with maximum transfer
rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each. It supports Intel ® Matrix Storage Technology, providing
both AHCI and RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 configuration.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, one serial port, one ESATA port, six USB ports, one LAN port
and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 8-ch line-out.
Introducing the Motherboard