Intel D945GCZ manual Feature Summary, Form Factors

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 (10.4-inches x 10.5-inches)
Processor	Support for an Intel® processor in the LGA775 package
Main Memory	•	Four 240-pin, 1.8 V SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
	• 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/
Chipset	Intel® 945G Express Chipset consisting of:
	• Intel® 82945G Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) with Direct
		Media Interface
	• Intel® 82801GB I/O Controller Hub (ICH7) or Intel® 82801GR I/O Controller
		Hub (ICH7R) supporting Intel® Matrix Storage Technology
	•	Firmware Hub (FWH)
Graphics	Intel 945G Express Chipset with Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Audio	•	Intel 945G Express Chipset
	• Intel® High Definition Audio interface
	•	SigmaTel* codec
Expansion Capabilities	•	Two PCI bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI bus 2)
	• One PCI Express* x16 connector
	• One PCI Express x1 connector
Peripheral Interfaces	•	Up to eight USB 2.0 ports
		⎯ Four ports routed to the back panel
		⎯ Four ports routed to two USB headers
	• Four Serial ATA (SATA) channels (3.0 Gb/s), via the ICH7 or ICH7R, one
		device per channel
	• One IDE interface with ATA-66/100 support (two devices)
	•	One VGA connector
	• One diskette drive interface
	•	One parallel port
	•	One serial port
	• PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports
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