Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS P45T-A2R User Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the P45T-A2R/P45T-A2 motherboard. This motherboard
is a high performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the
LGA775 socket Intel ® Yorkfield/Wolfdale processors for high-end business or per-
sonal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the Intel Eaglelake P45 Northbridge (NB) and
ICH10R/ICH10 Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side
Bus (FSB) frequency of 1333/1066/800 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The
memory controller supports DDR2 memory
ports four DDR2 sockets with maximum memory size of 16 GB. DDR2 memory
bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s in dual-channel symmetric mode assuming DDR2 800 MHz.
High resolution graphics via one PCI
face, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification Revision
The ICH10R/ICH10 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI v2.3 compli-
ant. In addition, three PCI Express x1 slots are supported, fully compliant to the PCI
Express Base Specification, Revision 1.1. It implements an EHCI compliant inter-
face that provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for twelve USB 2.0 ports (four USB ports and
four USB 2.0 headers support additional eight USB ports). One onboard IDE connec-
tor 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 (optional for ICH10R only).
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, COM, four USB ports, one LAN port and audio jacks for
microphone, line-in and 6-ch line-out.
"*" Users please note that P45T-A2R uses ICH10R and only ICH10R
supports RAID.
Introducing the Motherboard
DIMM frequencies of 800/667. It sup-
Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Inter-
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Intel
2.0.