Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS 945GCT-M Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the 945GCT-M motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket
TM
Intel Core 2 Duo/Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron D processors for high-end business
or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the 945GC Northbridge (NB) and ICH7 Southbridge
(SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 1066/
800/533 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports
DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies of 667/533/400. It supports two DDR2 Sockets
with up to maximum memory of 2 GB. DDR2 Maximum memory bandwidth of 10.7
Gb/s in dual-channel interleaved mode using DDR2 667 MHz. High resolution graph-
ics via two PCI Express slots, intended for Graphics Interface, are fully compliant to
the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. It
implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for
eight USB 2.0 ports. One onboard IDE connector supports 2 IDE devices in Ultra
ATA 100/66/33 mode. The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller that
is SATA 1.0a compliant, 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, COM1, LPT1(optional), one VGA
port, four USB ports, one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-
out.
Introducing the Motherboard
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