Intel D945PVS manual Feature Summary, Form Factors

1 Desktop Board Features

This chapter briefly describes the main features of Intel® Desktop Board D945PVS. Table 1 summarizes the major features of the desktop board.

Table 1. Feature Summary

Form Factors	ATX (12.00-inches by 9.60-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 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® 945P Express Chipset consisting of:
	• Intel® 82945P Memory Controller Hub (MCH) with Direct Media Interface
	• Intel® 82801GR I/O Controller Hub (ICH7R) supporting Intel® Matrix Storage
	Technology
	• Firmware Hub (FWH)
Audio	• Intel 945P Express Chipset
	• Intel® High Definition Audio interface
Expansion Capabilities	• Four PCI bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI bus 2)
	• One PCI Express x16 connector
	• Two 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

•Up to three IEEE-1394a ports:

⎯One port routed to the back panel

⎯Two ports routed to two IEEE-1394a headers

•Intel® 82573V Gigabit Ethernet Controller with RJ-45 connector

•Four Serial ATA (SATA) channels (3.0 Gb/s), via the ICH7R, one device per channel

•One IDE interface with ATA-66/100 support (two devices)

•One diskette drive interface

•One parallel port

•One serial port

•PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports

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