User`s guide

Motherboard User’s Guide

Audio

Serial ATA

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Four Serial ATA Connectors

• Transfer rate exceeding best ATA (3.0 Gb/s) with scalability to higher rates

• Low pin count for both host and devices

Onboard IDE channels

• One IDE Connector

• Supports PIO (Programmable Input/Output) and DMA (Direct Memory

Access) modes

• Supports IDE Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 100/66

MB/sec

Expansion Slots

• Two 32-bit PCI slots

• One PCI Expressx16 slot

• One PCI Expressx1 slot

Memory Support

• Two 240-pin DIMM sockets for DDR2 SDRAM memory modules

• Supports DDR2 800/667 with dual-channel architecture

• Maximum installed memory is 4 GB

• System Memory Controller Support: DDR2 SDRAM with up to maxi-

mum memory of 4 GB.

• PCI Express Graphics Interface Support: One PCI Express x16 slot

• PCI Bus Interface Support: PCI Revision 2.3 Specification at 33MHz

• Integrade Serial ATA Host Controller: Independent DMA operation with

Data transfer rates up to 3.0 Gb/s

• Intgrated IDE Controller: Ultra DMA-100/66 Bus Master EIDE Control-

ler

• USB 2.0: Integrated USB 2.0 interface

• Hyper-Threading Technology

There are G31 Northbridge and ICH7 in the chipsets in accordance with an inno-

vative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and performance.

Chipset

• 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec

• Exceeds Microsoft Windows Logo Program (WLP) Requirements

• ADCs support 44.1K/48K/96K/192KHz sample rate

• Power Support: Digital: 3.3V; Analog: 5.0V