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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the G41T-M13 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket
for Core
TM
2 Extreme/Core
TM
2 Quad/Core
TM
2 Duo/Pentium
®
Dual Core/Celeron
®
Dual Core/Celeron
®
400/Pentium
®
4/Celeron
®
D series processors (Please reference
the CPU support list) for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
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 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). 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, 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. It supports a system bus (FSB) of 1333/1066/800/533
MHz. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies of
1333(OC)/1066/800
*
. It supports two DDR3 sockets with up to maximum memory
of 8 GB. DDR3 Maximum memory bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s in dual-channel symmet-
ric mode assuming DDR3 1333(OC)/1066/800 MHz. One PCI Express x16 slot,
intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Gen 1.
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