Intel D945GPM manual Desktop Board Features, Feature Summary

1 Desktop Board Features

This chapter briefly describes the main features of Intel® Desktop Board D945GPM. Table 1 summarizes the major features of the desktop board.

Table 1. Feature Summary

Form Factors	MicroATX (9.6-inches x 9.6-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® 82801GH I/O Controller Hub (ICH7DH) supporting Intel® Matrix Storage
	Technology
	• Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Flash or 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	• Two PCI bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI bus 2)
Capabilities	• One PCI Express x16 connector
	• One PCI Express x1 connector
Peripheral	• Up to eight USB 2.0 ports
Interfaces	⎯ Four ports routed to the back panel
	⎯ Four ports routed to two USB headers
	• Up to three IEEE 1394a ports
	⎯ One port routed to the back panel
	⎯ Two ports routed to two IEEE 1394a headers
	• Intel® 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller with an RJ-45 connector
	• Four Serial ATA (SATA) channels (3.0 Gb/s), via the ICH7DH, one device per
	channel
	• One IDE interface with ATA-66/100 support (two devices)
	• One VGA connector
	• One diskette drive interface
	• One serial port
	• PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports
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