INSTALLATIONS

ATX Power Installation

The system power is provided to the motherboard with the ATX1 and ATX_12V1 power connectors. ATX1 is a 24-pin power connector and ATX_12V1 is an 8-pin 12V power connector.

Note: The power supply 5VSB voltage must be at least 2A.

Installing the Memory

The MB893 motherboard supports four DDR memory sockets for a maximum total memory of 4GB in DDR memory type. It supports DDR333 when installed with CPUs that have clock speeds of 533MHz. It supports DDR400 when installed with CPUs that have clock speeds of 800MHz. The board provides dual channel functionality for its DIMM slots. DIMM1, 2 is for one channel and DIMM3, 4 is for another channel.

Basically, the system memory interface has the following features: Supports two 64-bit wide DDR data channels

Available bandwidth of up to 3.2GB/s (DDR400) for single-channel mode and 6.4GB/s (DDR400) in dual-channel mode

Supports 128Mb, 256Mb, 512Mb and 1Gb DDR technologies Supports only x8, x16, DDR devices with four banks Registered DIMMs not supported

Supports opportunistic refresh

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Intel MB893 user manual ATX Power Installation, Installing the Memory