IBM 3301690 Onboard Chipsets, Northbridge and Southbridge Chipsets, „ Southbridge Intel ICH6

3301690 CPU Card

2.3Onboard Chipsets

2.3.1Northbridge and Southbridge Chipsets

The following chipsets are preinstalled on the board:

„Northbridge: Intel® 915GV

„Southbridge: Intel® ICH6

The following two sections (Section 2.3.2 and Section 2.3.3) lists some of the features of the Intel® 915GV and the Intel® ICH6 chipsets. For more information on these two chipsets please refer to the Intel website.

2.3.2 Intel® 915GV Northbridge Chipset

The Intel® 915GV northbridge chipset comes with the following features:

„Supports 800MHz or 533MHz System Bus

„Supports Intel® HT Technology

„Implements Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (GMA 900)

„Implements PCI Express (PCI-E) technology

„Supports DDR2 DIMM memory modules

„Integrates a SATA controller that controls four 150MB/s SATA channels

„Integrates Intel® High Definition Audio for new audio formats

2.3.3Intel® ICH6 Southbridge Chipset

The Intel® ICH6 southbridge chipset comes with the following features:

„Complies with PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.0a

„Complies with PCI Local Bus Specification Revision 2.3 and supports 33MHz PCI operation

„Supports ACPI power management

„Integrates SATA host controller with independent DMA operation on four ports

„Supports Ultra ATA 100/66/33 with an integrated IDE controller]

„Supports eight USB 2.0 ports but only seven are implemented on the 3301690

„Supports AC’97 Revision 2.3 Specifications

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