User`s guide

Motherboard User’s Guide

Serial ATA

•

Two 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 133/100/

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 667/533/400 memory bus

• Maximum installed memory is 4 GB

• System Memory Controller Support: DDR2 SDRAM with up to

maximum memory of 4 GB.

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

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

• Integrade Serial ATA Host Controller: Independent DMA operation on

two ports with Data transfer rates up to 3.0 Gb/s

• Intgrated IDE Controller: Ultra DMA-133/100/66 Bus Master EIDE

Controller

• USB 2.0: Integrated USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to eight functional

ports

• Hyper-Threading Technology

• High Performance Host Interface: Supports * Intel

Core

2 Quad/

Intel

Core

2 Duo/Pentium

4/Celeron

D processor family with

FSB 1066 MHz

There are P4M900 CD Northbridge and VT8237S in the chipsets in accordance

with an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and perfor-

mance.

Chipset