Motherboard User's Guide
Chipset
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The Intel
G41 Northbridge (NB) and Intel
based on an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and perfor-
mance.
High Performance Host Interface: Supports Intel Core 2 Quad /Intel
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TM
Core
2 Duo/Pentium
400 series processors family with FSB1333/1066 MHz
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System Memory Controller Support: DDR3 SDRAM with up to
maximum memory of 4 GB.
PCI Express Graphics Interface Support: One PCI Express x16 port
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PCI Bus Interface Support: PCI Revision 2.3 Specification at 33MHz
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Integrade Serial ATA Host Controller with Data transfer rates up to 3.0
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Gb/s
Intgrated IDE Controller: Ultra DMA-100/66/33 Bus Master EIDE
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Controller
USB 2.0: Integrated USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to eight functional
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ports
Memory Support
Two 240-pin DIMM sockets for DDR3 1333/1066 SDRAM
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channel architecture.
Maximum installed memory is 4 GB
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Expansion Slots
One 32-bit PCI slot
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One PCI Express x16 slot
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One PCI Express x1 slot
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Onboard IDE channels
One IDE Connector
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Supports PIO (Programmable Input/Output) and DMA (Direct Memory
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Access) modes
Supports IDE Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 100/66/
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33 MB/sec
Serial ATA
Serial ATA Connector
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Transfer rate exceeding best ATA (3.0 Gb/s) with scalability to higher
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rates
Low pin count for both host and devices
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Due to the chipset spec, this motherboard runs at DDR3 1066/800 MHz
memory speed. Please refer to the memory QVL in page 11~12.
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ICH7 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are
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Dual-Core/Celeron
Dual-Core/Celeron
2
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with Dual-