Mainboard PM945GC(V2.0)

Chapter 1. Getting Started

Introduction

Thanks for choosing PM945GC(V2.0) Mainboard. It is based on Intel® 945GC Northbridge chipset and Intel® ICH7 Southbridge chipset. In addition, it also supports integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 950 for onboard graphics feature. It supports Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo/ Pentium® D/ Pentium® 4/ Celeron® D/ Celeron® Processors (The power consumption for the aforementioned processors must be rated at 65W or less) with FSB (Front Side Bus) frequencies of 1333 MHz (by overclocking)/ 1066 MHz (by overclocking)/ 800 MHz/ 533 MHz.

The PM945GC(V2.0) provides two DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Modules) sockets which allowing you to install 240-pin, unbuffered non-ECC, DDRII 667 (by overclocking)/ DDRII 533 SDRAMs. It also supports Dual Channel Technology and allows you installing a total memory capacity of 4 GB.

This mainboard provides one PCI-Express interface slot up to x16 mode which is recommended that insert a graphics card onto the PCI-Espress x16 slot. In addition, two standard PCI slots for use with standard PCI expansion cards are also allowed.

The PM945GC(V2.0) provides one floppy disk drive connector that can be used with 360KB/720KB/1.2MB/1.44MB/2.88MB drives. It also has one IDE connector for IDE hard drives supporting Ultra ATA 100/66/33. Moreover, this mainboard comes with Serial ATA II support with four SATA II connectors which provide up to 3 Gbps data transfer rates.

The onboard High Definition Audio CODEC (ALC662) supports high quality performance 6-channel audio play <See Appendix I>. The mainboard also supports the Sony/Philips Digital Interfaces (S/PDIF) output function (optional).

The PM945GC(V2.0) also comes with an onboard 10/100 Mbps Ethernet LAN chip. There is a LAN port on the back panel of your case that you can directly plug into an Internet cable.

There are maximal eight USB2.0/ 1.1 ports which can be set up on this mainboard.

All the information (including hardware installation and software installation) in this manual are for reference only. The contents in this manual may be updated without notice. The company will not assume any responsibility for any errors or mistakes within.

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