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Introducing the Motherboard
Feature
• Accommodates Intel
®
Core
TM
2 Quad/Core
TM
2 Duo processors
• Supports a system bus (FSB) of 1333/1066/800 MHz
• Supports “Hyper-Threading” technology CPU
The motherboard uses an LGA775 type of Intel
®
Core
TM
2 Quad/Core
TM
2 Duo
processors that carries the following features:
Processor
“Hyper-Threading” technology enables the operating system into thinking it’s
hooked up to two processors, allowing two threads to be run in parallel, both on
separate “logical” processors within the same physical processor.
Chipset
The Intel
®
G43 Northbridge (NB) and Intel
®
ICH10 Southbridge (SB) chipsets
are based on an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and
performance.
G43
(NB)
• Supports 36-bit host bus addressing, allowing the CPU to
access the entire 64 GB of the memory address space
• Chip-to-chip connection interface to Intel ICH10
• 2 GB/s point-to-point Direct Media Interface (DMI) to ICH10
(1 GB/s each direction)
• Supports 2-Gb,1-Gb and 512-Mb DDR2 DRAM technolo-
gies for x8 and x16 devices
• One 16-lane (x16) PCI Express port intended for support-
ing up to two external PCI Express graphics card in bifur-
cated mode, fully compatible to the PCI Express Base Speci-
fication revision 2.0
• An integrated graphics device (IGD) delivering cost com-
petitive 3D, 2D and video capabilities
ICH10
(SB)
• Enhanced DMA Controller, Timer/Counter functions, and
Interrupt Controller
• Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification Revision
1.1
• Compliant with PCI 2.3 specification
• Integrated SATA 3.0 Gb/s Host Controller
• Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to twelve
USB 2.0 ports
• Integrated Gigabit LAN Controller
Memory
• Supports DDR2 800/667 DDR2 SDRAM with Dual-channel architec-
ture
• Accommodates two unbuffered DIMMs
• Up to 2 GB per DIMM with maximum memory size up to 4 GB
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