Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS G31T-M9 Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the G31T-M9 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket
Intel ® Core TM 2 Duo/Pentium ® Dual-Core/Celeron ® 4xx Series processors for high-
end business or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the G31 Northbridge (NB) and ICH7 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 DIMM frequencies of 800/667. It supports two DDR2 sockets with
up to maximum memory of 4 GB. DDR2 Maximum memory bandwidth of 12.8 GB/
s in dual-channel symmetric mode assuming DDR2 800 MHz. High resolution graph-
ics via one PCI Express slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the
PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.1.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports one PCI slot which is PCI v2.3 compliant. In addi-
tion, one PCI Express x1 slot is 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 six USB 2.0 ports (four USB ports and one USB 2.0 header
supports additional two USB ports). One onboard IDE connector supports two IDE
devices in Ultra ATA 100/66/33 mode. The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host
controller, supporting two SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s
each.
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, VGA port, four USB ports, one LAN
port, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
Introducing the Motherboard