Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS G45T-M2 Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the G45T-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket
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Intel Yorkfield/Wolfdale/Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo/Pentium Dual-Core (E21XX
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series)/Celeron Dual-Core/Celeron 4xx processors for high-end business or per-
sonal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the G45 Northbridge (NB) and ICH10 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 16 GB. DDR2 Maximum memory bandwidth of 12.8 GB/
s in dual-channel symmetric mode assuming DDR2 800 MHz. High resolution graph-
ics via one PCI Express slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to
the PCI Express Base Specification revision 2.0.
The ICH10 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. In
addition, one PCI Express x1 slot is supported. It implements an EHCI compliant
interface that provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for 12 USB 2.0 ports (4 USB ports and
4 USB 2.0 headers support additional 8 USB ports). The Southbridge integrates a
Serial ATA host controller, supporting six 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 DVI port, one VGA port, four
USB ports, one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6/8-channel
(optional) line-out.
Introducing the Motherboard