ECS G41T-M User Manual

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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the G41T-M motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket
Intel
®
Core
TM
2 Quad/Core
TM
2 Duo/Pentium
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
processors for
high-end business or personal desktop markets.
The ICH7 Southbridge supports one PCI slot which is PCI v2.3 compliant. In addi-
tion, two PCI Express x1 slots are supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express
Base Specification revision 1.0a. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that
provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for eight USB 2.0 ports (four USB ports and two USB
2.0 headers support additional four USB ports). One onboard IDE connector supports
two IDE devices in Ultra ATA100/66/33 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, COM, one VGA port, four USB
ports, one LAN port, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
The motherboard incorporates the Intel
®
G41 Northbridge (NB) and Intel
®
ICH7
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) fre-
quency of 1333/1066/800 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory con-
troller supports DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies of 800/667. It supports two
DDR2 sockets with up to maximum memory of 8 GB. DDR2 Maximum memory
bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s in dual-channel symmetric mode assuming DDR2 800 MHz.
High resolution graphics via one PCI Express slot, intended for Graphics Interface,
is fully compliant to the PCI Express Gen 1.

ECS G41T-M Specifications

General

Number of memory slots	2
Maximum internal memory	8 GB
Processor socket	LGA 775 (Socket T)
Processor manufacturer	Intel
S/PDIF out connector	Yes
Number of SATA connectors	4
Number of Parallel ATA connectors	1
USB 2.0 ports quantity	USB 2.0 ports have a data transmission speed of 480 Mbps, and are backwards compatible with USB 1.1 ports. You can connect all kinds of peripheral devices to them.
Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports	0
Audio chip	VIA VT1708B
Power source type	ATX
Audio output channels	5.1 channels
Motherboard form factor	micro ATX
Graphics card	GMA X4500
Networking features	Fast Ethernet
ACPI version	1.0
BIOS memory size	64 Mbit

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	204 mm
Width	244 mm