ECS NF650iSLIT-A - Chapter 1 Introducing the Motherboard; Introduction

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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the NF650iSLIT-A motherboard. This motherboard is a
high performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775
socket Intel®
Core™ 2 Extreme (FSB 1333 MHz OC)/Core™ 2 Quad/Core™ 2
Duo/Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron D processors for high-end business or personal
desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the NVIDIA nForce® 650i SLI™-C55 Northbridge
(NB) and MCP51 Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side
Bus (FSB) frequency of 1333 (overclocking)/1066/800/533 MHz using a scalable
FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies
of 800/667/533/400 MHz. It supports four DDR2 sockets with up to maximum
memory of 32 GB. DDR2 Maximum memory bandwidth of 12.8 Gb/s in dual-channel
interleaved mode assuming DDR2 800. High resolution graphics via two PCI Express
slots, intended for SLI mode Graphics Interface, are fully compliant to the PCI
Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
The MCP51 Southbridge is a highly integrated media and communications processor
(MCP) with up to 800 MHz HyperTransport link interface. It supports three PCI
slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host
controller, supporting four SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s.
USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) provides up to 8 USB 2.0 ports.
The MCP51 supports advanced system and power management features with inte-
grated system power sequencing support.
This motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, COM1, LPT1(optional), four USB
ports, one LAN port, two S/PDIF out ports and audio jacks for microphone, line-in
and 8-channel line-out.
This motherboard supports native FSB1066, and FSB1333 can be
achieved by overclocking. Users please be aware that overclocking could
possibly make the system unstable or damage the system!