Microsoft PXP43 manual Feature, Processor

ICH10 (SB)

Memory

2PXP43 Motherboard User’s Guide

Feature

Processor

This motherboard uses an LGA775 type of Intel® Yorkfield/Wolfdale that carries the following features:

•Accommodates Intel® Yorkfield/Wolfdale processors

•Supports a system bus (FSB) of 1333/1066/800 MHz

Chipset

The P43 Northbridge (NB) and ICH10 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are based on an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and performance.

P43 (NB) • Supports 36-bit host bus addressing, allowing the CPU to access the entire 64 GB of the memory ad- dress space.

• 2 GB/s point-to-point Direct Media Interface (DMI) to ICH10 (1 GB/s each direction)

• One, 16-lane PCI Express x16 port for Graphics At- tach, compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 2.0

• Supports 512-Mb and 1-Gb DDR2 and 512-Mb, 1- Gb,and 2-Gb DDR3 DRAM technologies for x8 and x16 devices

• Enhanced DMA Controller, interrupt controller, and timer functions

• Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification, revi- sion 1.1

• Compliant with PCI v2.3 specificaiton

• Compliant with SATA 3.0 Gb/s Host Controller

• Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to twelve USB 2.0 ports

•Supports DDR2 800/667 DDR2 SDRAM with Dual-channel architecture

•Accommodates four unbuffered DIMMs

•Up to 4 GB per DIMM with maximum memory size up to 16 GB

Audio (Realtek 6CH Audio ALC662 Codec)

•5.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec

•ADCs supports 44.1k/48k/96kHz sample rate

•Meets Microsoft WLP 3.08 Vista premium and mobile PCs audio requirements

•Direct Sound 3DTM compatible

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