ECS 945GCT-D - Chapter 1 Introducing the Motherboard; Introduction

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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing 945GCT-D motherboard of great performance and with
enhanced function. This motherboard has onboard Intel Diamondville CPU with a
Micro DTX form factor of 200 x 170 mm.
The motherboard incorporates the 945GC Northbridge (NB) and ICH7 Southbridge
(SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 533
MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports DDR2 memory
DIMM frequencies of 533/400. It supports two DDR2 Sockets with up to maximum
memory of 2 GB.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports one PCI slot which is PCI 2.3 compliant. In addition,
one PCI Express x1 slot is supported. It implements an EHCI compliant interface
that provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for 8 USB 2.0 ports (4 USB ports and 2 USB 2.0
headers support additional 4 USB ports). 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 serial port, one VGA port, four
USB ports, one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.