9 
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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