Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS 945GCT-M2 Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the 945GCT-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high perfor-
mance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket Intel
TM
Core 2 Duo/*Pentium D/*Pentium 4/Celeron D processors for high-end business or per-
sonal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the 945GC Northbridge (NB) and ICH7 Southbridge (SB)
chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 1066/800/533 MHz
using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports DDR2 memory DIMM
frequencies of 667/533/400. It supports two DDR2 Sockets with up to maximum memory
of 2 GB DDR2 Maximum memory bandwidth of 8.5 Gb/s in dual-channel interleaved mode
assuming DDR2 667 MHz. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express slot, intended for
Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. It implements
an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for eight USB 2.0 ports.
One onboard IDE connector supports 2 IDE devices in Ultra ATA 100/66/33 mode. The
Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting four SATA ports with maxi-
mum 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, COM1, one VGA port, four USB ports, one LAN port
and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
"*" stands for this motherboard is ready to support Pentium D/ Pentium 4 proces-
sors.
Introducing the Motherboard
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