Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS G33T-M2 User Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the G33T-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high perfor-
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mance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket for Intel
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Wolfdale/ Core 2 Duo processors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the G33 Northbridge (NB) and ICH9 Base 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 four DDR2 Sockets with up to maximum
memory of 8 GB. DDR2 memory bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s in dual-channel symmetric mode
assuming DDRII 800. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express slot, intended for
Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.1.
The ICH9 Base Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. It imple-
ments an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for twelve USB 2.0
ports. The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting four 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, one serial port (optional), one parallel port (op-
tional), one VGA port, four USB ports, one LAN port (optional), one 1394A port (op-
tional) and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 8-ch line out.
Introducing the Motherboard