Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS 915PL-A2 User Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the 915PL-A2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high perfor-
mance, enhanced function motherboard that supports LGA775 Socket for latest Intel
Pentium 4/Celeron Processors.
The motherboard incorporates the 915PL Northbridge (NB) and ICH6 Southbridge (SB)
chipsets. The Northbridge on this motherboard supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency
of 800/533 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The momory controller supports DDR
memory DIMM frequencies of 333MHz and 400 MHz. It supports two DDR Sockets with
up to maximum memory of 2 GB. DDR Maximum memory bandwidth of 3.2 GB/s in single-
channel is supported, or 6.4 GB/s in dual-channel interleaved mode assuming DDR 400MHz.
High resolution graphics via two PCI Express slots, intended for Graphics Interface, are
fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
The ICH6 Southbridge supports three PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. In addition,
one PCI Express x1 slot is supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specifica-
tion, Revision 1.0a. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480Mb/s
bandwidth for eight USB 2.0 ports, integrates Azalia codec supporting Azilia standard that
features an 8-channel High Definition Audio output. One onboard IDE connector supports
2 IDE devices in ATA-100/66 mode. The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller
that is SATA v1.0 compliant, supporting four SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to
150 MB/s each and LAN controller supporting 10/100Mbit/s ethernet.
The 915PL-A2 motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear
panel, including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, COM1, LPT1, four USB ports, one
optional LAN port, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 8-ch line out.
Introducing the Motherboard