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1 Desktop Board Features
This chapter briefly describes the main features of Intel
®
Desktop Board D945PVS. Table 1
summarizes the major features of the desktop board.
Table 1. Feature Summary
Form Factors
ATX (12.00-inches by 9.60-inches)
Processor
Support for an Intel
®
processor in the LGA775 package
Main Memory
• Four 240-pin, 1.8 V SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
• 667/533 MHz single or dual channel DDR2 SDRAM interface
• Designed to support up to 4 GB of system memory
NOTE: System resources (such as PCI and PCI Express*) require physical
memory address locations that reduce available memory addresses above 3 GB.
This may result in less than 4 GB of memory being available to the operating
system and applications. For the latest list of tested memory, refer to the Intel
World Wide Web site at: http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/
Chipset
Intel
®
945P Express Chipset consisting of:
• Intel
®
82945P Memory Controller Hub (MCH) with Direct Media Interface
• Intel
®
82801GR I/O Controller Hub (ICH7R) supporting Intel
®
Matrix Storage
Technology
• Firmware Hub (FWH)
Audio
• Intel 945P Express Chipset
• Intel
®
High Definition Audio interface
Expansion Capabilities
• Four PCI bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI bus 2)
• One PCI Express x16 connector
• Two PCI Express x1 connector
Peripheral Interfaces
• Up to eight USB 2.0 ports:
⎯ Four ports routed to the back panel
⎯ Four ports routed to two USB headers
• Up to three IEEE-1394a ports:
⎯ One port routed to the back panel
⎯ Two ports routed to two IEEE-1394a headers
• Intel
®
82573V Gigabit Ethernet Controller with RJ-45 connector
• Four Serial ATA (SATA) channels (3.0 Gb/s), via the ICH7R, one device per
channel
• One IDE interface with ATA-66/100 support (two devices)
• One diskette drive interface
• One parallel port
• One serial port
• PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports
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