Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS G31T-M3 User Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the G31T-M3 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket
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Intel Yorkfield/Wolfdale/Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo/Pentium Dual-Core/
Celeron ® Dual-Core/Celeron ® 4xx Series processors for high-end business or per-
sonal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the G31 Northbridge (NB) and ICH7 Southbridge
(SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 1333/
1066/800 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports
DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies of 800/667. It supports four DDR2 sockets with
up to maximum memory of 4 GB. DDR2 Maximum memory bandwidth of 12.8 GB/
s in dual-channel symmetric mode assuming DDR2 800 MHz. High resolution graph-
ics via one PCI Express slot, intended for Graphics Interface, are fully compliant to
the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.1.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI v2.3 compliant. In
addition, one PCI Express x1 slot is supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express
Base Specification, Revision 1.0a. It supports up to eight USB 2.0 ports (four USB
ports and two USB 2.0 headers support additional four USB 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 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, VGA port, four USB ports,
one LAN port, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
Introducing the Motherboard