Chapter 1 Introduction - ECS Motherboard User Manual

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction

This motherboard has a LGA775 socket for latest Intel
Pentium 4/Celeron processors with Hyper-Threading Tech-
nology and Front-Side Bus (FSB) speeds up to 800 MHz. Hyper-
Threading Technology, designed to take advantage of the
multitasking features in Windows XP, gives you the power to do
more things at once.
This motherboard integrates the Intel 915P Northbridge along
with Intel I/O Controller Hub 6 (ICH6) that supports the
Serial ATA interface for high-performance and mainstream
desktop PCs; the built-in USB 2.0 providing higher bandwidth,
implementing Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0
and is compliant with UHCI 1.1 and EHCI 1.0.
It supports 8-channel Azalia Audio Codec and provides one
IDE Ultra DMA 100/66 channel. It coporates one IDE RAID
controller supporting two IDE Ultra DMA 133/100/66 channel for
RAID 0, 1, 0+1 function. It has one AGPro slot, one PCI
Express x16 slot, two PCI Express x1 slots and three 32-bit
PCI slots. There is a full set of I/O ports including two PS/2 ports
for mouse and keyboard, one serial port, one parallel port, one
LAN port (optional), six audio jacks for micropone, line-in and 8-
ch line-out, four back-panel USB 2.0 ports and onboard USB
headers USB3/USB4 providing four extra ports by connecting the
extended USB module to the motherboard.
It features the Gigabit Ethernet interface that provides up to ten
times the throughput (10/100/1000 Mb/s operation) and faster
transfer rate (1 Gigabit/s) than conventional Ethernet connection.
It improves system availability, data security, user bandwidth and
network manageability.
It is an ATX motherboard and has power connectors for an ATX
power supply.
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