Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - PCchips A11G Manual

1
Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing A11G motherboard of great performance and with enhanced
function. This motherboard is designed to fit the AMD AM2 processors in the 940-pin
package. Based on the Micro ATX form factor, measuring 244 mm x 224 mm, this
motherboard incorporates the following chipsets: C51G Northbridge and MCP51G
Southbridge chipsets.
The C51G Northbridge features the HyperTransport Technology up to 1.0 GHz for a total
bandwidth of 8.0 GT/s. Two unbuffered DDR2 SDRAM DIMM sockets support DDR2 800/
667/533/400 with maximum 16 GB in total memory. One PCI Express x16 slot, intended
for Graphics interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision
1.0a.
The MCP51G Southbridge is a highly integrated media and communications processor
(MCP) with up to 1.0 GHz HyperTransport link interface. It supports two PCI slots which
are PCI 2.3 compliant. With the integrated SATA II controller onboard, this motherboard
supports two (up to four) drives up to 3.0 Gb/s per direction per channel. USB 2.0 Enhanced
Host Controller Interface (EHCI) provides up to 8 USB 2.0 ports. The MCP51G supports
advanced system and power management features with integrated system power sequencing
support.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, LPT1, four USB ports at the rear I/O, one optional LAN port, one
VGA port, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in, and line-out.
Introducing the Motherboard