Desktop Board Features
1 Desktop Board Features
✏NOTE
The D845HV board layout was used for illustrations unless otherwise noted. Table 1 describes the major features of the boards.
Table 1. Feature Summary
Form Factors
Processor
Memory
Chipset
I/O Control
LAN (optional)
Graphics
Audio
Peripheral Interfaces
•microATX at 9.6 inches by 9.6 inches (D845HV board)
•ATX at 12 inches by 9.6 inches (D845WN board)
•Support for an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor in an
•Three SDRAM DIMM sockets.
•Designed to support up to 3.0 GB of system memory
NOTE
The D845HV and D845WN desktop boards have been designed to support DIMMs based on 512 Mbit technology up to 3 GB, but this technology has not been validated on these boards. For more information about the latest list of tested memory, refer to the Intel World Wide Web site at: http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/
•Intel® 845 chipset, consisting of:
•Intel® 82845 Memory Controller Hub (MCH) with Accelerated Hub Architecture (AHA) bus
•Intel® 82801BA I/O Controller Hub (ICH2) with AHA bus
•4 Mbit Firmware Hub (FWH)
•SMSC LPC47M142 low pin count (LPC) interface I/O controller
•Intel® 82562ET 10/100 Mbit/sec Platform LAN Connect (PLC) device and
•AGP connector supporting 1.5 V 4X and 2X AGP cards
•Analog Devices Inc. AD1885 analog CODEC (AC ’97) featuring SoundMAX† with SPX† software support
•Up to seven Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports
Four ports routed to the back panel
Two ports routed to the front panel USB connector
One port routed to the optional CNR
•Two IDE interfaces with Ultra
•One diskette drive interface
•One parallel port
•Two serial ports (one via a board connector)
•PS/2† keyboard and mouse ports
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