1-2 Chapter 1: Product introduction
1.3 Special features
1.3.1 Product highlights
Latest processor technology
The motherboard comes with a 775-pin surface mount Land Grid Array
(LGA) socket designed for the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor in the 775-land
package. The motherboard supports the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor with
1066/800/533 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB). The motherboard also supports
the Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology and is fully compatible with Intel®
05B/05A or 04B/04A processors. See page 2-6 for details.
Intel® Co re™ 2™ 2 2
The motherboard supports the latest IntelIntel® CoreTM 2 processor in the
LGA775 package. With the new IntelIntel® CoreTM microarchitecture technology
and 1066/800MHz FSB, Intel® CoreTM 2 processor is one of teh most
powerful and energy efcient CPU in the world..
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology (EIST)
The Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology (EIST) intelligently manages
the CPU resources by automatically adjusting the CPU voltage and core
frequency depending on the CPU loading and system speed or power
requirement. See page 4-25 and the Appendix for details.
Intel® 945P chipset
The Intel® 945P Memory Controller Hub (MCH) and the ICH7 I/O controller
hub provide the vital interfaces for the motherboard. The MCH provides
support for Intel® processor, dual-channel memory, and PCI Express
interfaces.
The Intel® ICH7 Southbridge represents the seventh generation I/O
controller hub that provides the interface for storage, I/O, PCI Express, and
6‑channel high denition audio system.
DDR2 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory which features data transfer rates
of 667/533/400 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the
latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The dual-channel
DDR2 architecture doubles the bandwidth of your system memory to boost
system performance, eliminating bottlenecks with peak bandwidths of up
to 10.7 GB/s. See pages 2-13 to 2-16 for details.