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1 Desktop Board Features
This chapter briefly describes the main features of Intel
®
Desktop Board D915GLVG. Table 1
summarizes the major features of the desktop board.
Table 1. Feature Summary
Form Factor
MicroATX (9.60” x 9.60”)
Processor
Support for:
• Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 processor in the LGA775 package
• Intel
®
Celeron
®
D processor in the LGA 775 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: System resources (such as PCI) require physical memory address locations
that reduce available memory addresses above 3 GB. This may result in less than 4
GB of memory being available to the operating system and applications. 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
®
915GL Express Chipset consisting of:
• Intel
®
82915GL Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) with Direct Media
Interface
• Intel
®
82801FB I/O Controller Hub (ICH6)
• Firmware Hub (FWH)
Graphics
Intel 915GL Express Chipset with Intel
®
Graphics Media Accelerator 900
Audio • Intel 915GL Express Chipset
• Intel
®
High Definition Audio
• Realtek codec
Expansion
Capabilities
• Two PCI bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI bus 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
LAN
Integrated Intel
®
GD82562GZ 10/100 Mbit/sec Platform LAN Connect (PLC) device
with RJ-45 connector
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