Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS 845PE-A800 Manual

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Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing 845PE-A800 motherboard of great performance and with en-
hanced function. 845PE-A800 motherboard carries a ATX form factor of 305 x 204 mm.
845PE-A800 supports Socket 478 Pentium 4 processors with system bus speeds up to 800
(overclocking, requires using DDR400)/533/400MHz.
845PE-A800 incorporates chipset of Intel 845PE Northbridge and ICH4 Southbridge.
845PE(MCH) Northbridge supports a single processor with FSB of 800 (overclocking,
requires using DDR400)/533/400 MHz, DDR-SDRAM at 400 (overclocking)/333/266MHz
operation. It supports 64-Mb, 128-Mb, 256-Mb and 512-Mb SDRAM technology.
The ICH4 Southbridge integrates IDE controller supporting Ultra ATA/100/66/33, BMIDE
and PIO modes. It implements three UHCI host controllers that provide 480Mb/s band-
width for six external USB2.0 ports, integrates AC'97 v2.3 compliant controller that
features a 6-channel of audio speaker out. The southbridge also integrates a PCI interface
controller, and LAN controller supporting 10/100 Mbit/s ethernet.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, COM1, LPT1, and four USB ports, one optional LAN port, and audio
jacks for microphone, line-in, and line-out. In addition to its excellent performance and
stability, the motherboard is highly suited for Internet and rich multimedia applications,
including streaming video download and are ideal for workstations and high-end home use.
FSB 800MHz is made possible by overclocking on this motherboard.
When a CPU with 800MHz FSB is installed, users need to use DDR400
SDRAM module.
Introducing the Motherboard
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