Chapter 1 Introduction; Features Summary - Gigabyte GA-8IEX Series User Manual

Chapter 1 Introduction

Features Summary

Form Factor
Motherboard
CPU
Chipset
Memory
I/O Control
Slots
On-Board IDE
On-Board Peripherals
* For GA-8IEX Only.** For GA-8IEXP Only.*** For PCB 2.0 Only.
GA-8IEX Series Motherboard
— 30.6cm x 24.4cm ATX size form factor, 4 layers PCB.
— GA-8IEX Series Motherboard:
GA-8IEX and GA-8IEXP
— Socket 478 for Intel Micro FC-PGA2 Pentium
®
— Intel Pentium ® 4 533MHz/400MHz FSB
— Support Intel ® Pentium ®
— 2nd cache depend on CPU
— Chipset 845E HOST/AGP/Controller
— ICH4 I/O Controller Hub
— 3 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets
— Supports PC2100 DDR or PC1600 DDR DIMM
— Supports up to 2GB DRAM (Max)
— Supports only 2.5V DDR DIMM
— IT8712
— 1 CNR(Communication and Networking Riser) Slot (**)
— 1 AGP slot 4X (1.5V only) device support
— 6 PCI slot supports 33MHz & PCI 2.2 compliant
— 2 IDE controllers on the Intel ICH4 PCI chipset
provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM (IDE1, IDE2) with PIO, Bus Master
(Ultra DMA33/ATA66/ATA100) operation modes.
— IDE3 and IDE4 Compatible with RAID,Ultra ATA133/100.(**)
— 1 Floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K,1.2M, 1.44M
and 2.88M bytes.
— 1 Parallel port supports Normal/EPP/ECP mode
— 2 Serial ports (COMA & COMB)
— 6 x USB 2.0/1.1 (2 x Rear,4 xFront by cable )
— 1 IrDA connector for IR/CIR
— 1 Front Audio connector
— 1 Serial IRQ (***)
— 3 IEEE1394 connector (**)
- 4 -
4 processor
®
4 (Northwood, 0.13 m) processor
to be continued......