Microsoft PXP43 manual Chapter, Introducing the Motherboard, Introduction

Chapter 1: Introducing the Motherboard 1

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the PXP43 motherboard. This motherboard is a high per- formance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket Intel® Yorkfield/Wolfdale processors for high-end business or personal desktop mar- kets.

The motherboard incorporates the Intel Eaglelake P43 Northbridge (NB) and Intel ICH10 Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 1333/1066/800 MHz using a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies of 800/667. It supports four DDR2 sockets with maximum memory size of 16 GB. DDR2 memory bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s in dual-channel symmetric mode assuming DDR2 800 MHz. High resolu- tion graphics via one PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification Revision 2.0.

The ICH10 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI v2.3 compliant. In addition, three PCI Express x1 slots are supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification, Revision 1.1. It implements an EHCI compliant inter- face that provides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for twelve USB 2.0 ports (four USB ports and four USB 2.0 headers support additional eight USB ports). One onboard IDE connec- tor supports two IDE devices in Ultra ATA 133/100/66/33 mode. The Southbridge supports six SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each.

There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, COM, four USB ports, one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6-ch line-out.

Introducing the Motherboard