Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS P45T-A Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the P45T-A motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket
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Intel Yorkfield/Wolfdale/Core
desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the Intel Eaglelake P45 Northbridge (NB) and Intel
ICH10R 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
DDR2 sockets with maximum memory size of 16 GB. High resolution graphics via
two PCI Express x16 slots, intended for Graphics Interface, are fully compliant to
the PCI Express Base Specification Revision
Technology that allows you to install GPU graphics cards.
The ICH10R Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI v2.3 compliant. It
implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for
twelve USB 2.0 ports (six USB ports and three USB 2.0 headers support additional six
USB ports). One onboard IDE connector supports two IDE devices in Ultra ATA 133/
100/66/33 mode. The Southbridge supports six SATA ports with maximum transfer
rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each. It supports Intel
both AHCI and RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 configuration.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, one serial port, one eSATA port, six USB ports, one LAN port
and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 8-ch line-out.
Introducing the Motherboard
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2 Duo processors for high-end business or personal
DIMM frequencies of 800/667. It supports
2.0. It supports the ATI CrossFireX
® Matrix Storage Technology, providing
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