Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS G41T-M6 Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the G41T-M6 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket
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The motherboard incorporates the Intel G41 Northbridge (NB) and Intel ICH7
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) fre-
quency of 1333/1066/800 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory con-
troller supports DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies of 1066. It supports two DDR3
sockets with up to maximum memory of 8 GB. DDR3 Maximum memory bandwidth
of 12.8 GB/s in dual-channel symmetric mode assuming DDR3 1066 MHz. High
resolution graphics via one PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is
fully compliant to the PCI Express Gen 1.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports one PCI slot which is PCI v2.3 compliant. In addi-
tion, two PCI Express x1 slots are supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express
Base Specification revision 1.0a. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that
provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for eight USB 2.0 ports (four USB ports and two USB
2.0 headers support additional four USB ports). One onboard IDE connector supports
two IDE devices in Ultra ATA100/66/33 mode. The Southbridge integrates a Serial
ATA host controller, supporting four 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 optional DVI port, one VGA
port, one optional LPT port, four USB ports, one LAN port, and audio jacks for
microphone, line-in and line-out.
Introducing the Motherboard