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1 Desktop Board Features
This chapter briefly describes the main features of the Intel
®
Desktop Board D915GVWB. Table 1
summarizes the major features of the desktop board.
Table 1. Feature Summary
Form Factor
MicroATX (9.60” x 9.60”) Intel Desktop Board D915GVWB
Processor
• Support for an Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 processor in the LGA775 package
• Support for an Intel
®
Celeron
®
D processor in the LGA775 package
Main Memory
• Four 184-pin, 2.5 V SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
• 400/333 MHz single or dual channel DDR SDRAM interface
• Designed to support up to 4 GB of system memory
NOTE: For the latest list of tested memory, refer to the Intel World Wide Web site at:
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/
Chipset
Intel
®
915GV Express Chipset consisting of:
• Intel
®
82915GV Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) with Direct Media
Interface
• Intel
®
82801FB I/O Controller Hub (ICH6)
Graphics
Intel 915GV Express Chipset with Intel
®
Graphics Media Accelerator 900
Audio
• Intel 915GV Express Chipset
• Intel
®
High Definition Audio codec
Expansion
Capabilities
• Two PCI bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to slot 2)
• One PCI Express* x1 connector
Peripheral
Interfaces
• Up to eight USB 2.0 ports:
⎯ Four ports routed to the back panel
⎯ Four ports routed to two USB headers
• Four Serial ATA (SATA) channels, via the ICH6, one device per channel
• One IDE interface with ATA-66/100 support (two devices)
• One diskette drive interface
• One parallel port
• One serial port
• PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports
BIOS
• 4 Mbit flash memory
• Support for SMBIOS
• Intel
®
Rapid BIOS Boot
• Intel
®
Express BIOS Update
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