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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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