Major Components - ECS Photon Extreme KN3 SLI2 Manual

1.5 Major Components

1. CPU Socket
Socket AM2 surface mount, Zero Insertion Force socket for AMD
Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64 X2 Dual- Core/Athlon 64/Sempron
supports FSB 1000/800/600/400/200 MHz HyperTransport (HT)
interface speeds that allows up to 8 GB/s data transfer rates.
2. Dual channel DDR2 DIMM sockets
These four 240-pin DIMM sockets support up to 32 GB system
memory using unbuffered DDR2 800/667/533
3. Super I/O controller
This Super I/O provides the commonly used functionality. The chipset
supports a high performance floppy disk controller, a multimode parallel
port, one serial port, a game port, the mouse and keyboard interface.
4. Northbrige controller
The NVIDIA C51XE is a highly integrated, high-performance
processor supporting HyperTransport link, up to 1.0 GHz, for a total
bandwidth up to 8.0 GT/s. It has three separate PCI Express
controllers with 18 total lanes, configured as one x16 and two x1
PCI Express lanes.
5. Southbridge Controller
The NVIDIA MCP55XE features a 1 GHz HyperTransport link, dual
enterprise-class native Gigabit Ethernet MACs, PCI 2.3 compliant,
Serial ATA 2 Interface, ATA-133 support and USB 2.0.
Processor
modules.
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