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Feature

Processor
This motherboard uses an LGA775 type of Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron D that
carries the following features:
• Accommodates Intel Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron D processors
• Supports a system bus (FSB) of
• Supports "Hyper-Threading" technology CPU
"Hyper-Threading" technology enables the operating system into thinking it's hooked
up to two processors, allowing two threads to be run in parallel, both on separate
"logical" processors within the same physical processor.
Chipset
The 945PL Northbridge (NB) and ICH7 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are based on an
innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and performance.
945PL (NB)
ICH7 (SB)
Memory
• DDR2
• Accommodates two unbuffered DIMMs
• Up to 1 GB per DIMM with maximum memory size up to 2 GB
1394a FireWire(Optional)
• Compliant with single chip host controller for IEEE Std 1394-1995 and IEEE
1394a-2000
• Integrated 400Mb/s 2-port PHY for the PCI BUS
• 3.3V Power Supply with 5V Tolerant Inputs
800/533
• Supports 32-bit host bus addressing, allowing the CPU to
access the entire 2 GB of the memory address space.
• 2 GB/s point-to-point Direct Media Interface (DMI) to ICH7 (1
GB/s)each direction.
• Supports one PCI Express x16 for Graphics Interface, fully
compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision
1.0a.
• Supports 256-Mb, 512-Mb and 1-Gb DDR2 technologies for
x8 and x16 devices
• Enhanced DMA Controller, interrupt controller, and timer func-
tions
• Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification, Revision
1.0a
• Compliant with PCI 2.3 specificaiton
• Compliant with Serial ATA II specification
• Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to eight
USB 2.0 ports
• Integrated LAN controller
• Integrated IDE controller supports Ultra ATA100/66/33
533/400 DDR SDRAM with Dual-channel DDR2 architecture
Introducing the Motherboard
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