Chapter 1 Introducing The Motherboard - LIVEMORE 945GCT-HM User Manual

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Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the 945GCT-HM motherboard. This motherboard is a high perfor-
mance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket Intel
Core TM 2 Duo (E4400/E4300)/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 800/533 MHz using
a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports DDR2 memory DIMM frequen-
cies of 533/400. It supports two DDR2 Sockets with up to maximum memory of 2 GB.
DDR2 memory bandwidth of 4.3 Gb/s in single-channel is supported, or 8.5 Gb/s in dual-
channel interleaved mode. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express slot, intended for
Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. In addition, one
PCI Express x1 slot is supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification,
Revision 1.0a. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides 480 Mb/s band-
width for six 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, supporting
two 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 VGA port, two USB ports, one LAN port, audio
jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
Introducing the Motherboard