Elitegroup ST945GM (V1.0) - Manual (Page 7)

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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the ST945GM motherboard. This motherboard is a high perfor-
mance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the mPGA479 socket for Intel
Core™ Duo/Core™ Solo/Core™ Duo LV/Core™ Duo ULV/Core™ Solo ULV/Celeron M/
Celeron M-ULV processors for high-end business or personal mobile markets.
The motherboard incorporates the 945GM Northbridge (NB) and ICH7-M Southbridge (SB)
chipsets.
The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 667/533 MHz using
a scalable FSB Vcc_CPU. The memory controller supports dual-channel DDR2 memory
DIMM frequencies of 667/533/400. It supports two DDR2 Sockets with up to maximum
memory of 4 GB.
The ICH7-M Southbridge supports one standard PCI slot with riser card support and one
MINI PCI which are PCI 2.3 compliant. In addition, one PCI Express x1 slot is supported,
fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification, Revision 1.0a. It implements an
EHCI compliant interface that provides 480Mb/s bandwidth for six USB 2.0 ports. One
onboard IDE connector supports 2 IDE devices in Ultra ATA100/66/33 mode.
The
Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller that is SATA II compliant, supporting
two SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each.
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including
COM1 and COM2, one DVI1 port, four USB ports, one optional LAN port, one optional
1394 port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6-ch line out.