1 Desktop Board Features
This chapter briefly describes the main features of Intel® Desktop Board D945GCZ. Table 1 summarizes the major features of the desktop board.
Table 1. Feature Summary
Form Factors | MicroBTX | ||
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Processor | Support for an Intel® processor in the LGA775 package | ||
Main Memory | • | Four | |
| • 667/533/400 MHz single or dual channel DDR2 SDRAM interface | ||
| • Designed to support up to 4 GB of system memory | ||
| NOTE: System resources (such as PCI and PCI Express*) 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/ | ||
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Chipset | Intel® 945G Express Chipset consisting of: | ||
| • Intel® 82945G Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) with Direct | ||
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| Media Interface | |
| • Intel® 82801GB I/O Controller Hub (ICH7) or Intel® 82801GR I/O Controller | ||
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| Hub (ICH7R) supporting Intel® Matrix Storage Technology | |
| • | Firmware Hub (FWH) | |
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Graphics | Intel 945G Express Chipset with Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 | ||
Audio | • | Intel 945G Express Chipset | |
| • Intel® High Definition Audio interface | ||
| • | SigmaTel* codec | |
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Expansion Capabilities | • | Two PCI bus | |
| • One PCI Express* x16 connector | ||
| • One PCI Express x1 connector | ||
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Peripheral Interfaces | • | Up to eight USB 2.0 ports | |
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| ⎯ Four ports routed to the back panel | |
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| ⎯ Four ports routed to two USB headers | |
| • Four Serial ATA (SATA) channels (3.0 Gb/s), via the ICH7 or ICH7R, one | ||
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| • One IDE interface with | ||
| • | One VGA connector | |
| • One diskette drive interface | ||
| • | One parallel port | |
| • | One serial port | |
| • PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports | ||
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