Specifications

Introducing the Motherboard

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the IC43T-A2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high

performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA775 socket

Intel

Core

™

2 Extreme/Core

™

2 Quad/Core

™

2 Duo/Pentium

Dual-Core/Celeron

400 series processors for high-end business or personal desktop

markets.

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 line-out.

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 ten USB 2.0 ports (four USB ports and

three USB 2.0 headers support additional six USB ports). The Southbridge supports

six SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each.

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 DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies of 1066/800. It supports four

DDR3 sockets with maximum memory size of 8 GB*. DDR3 memory bandwidth of

GB/s in dual-channel symmetric mode assuming DDR3 1066 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.

*Due to the DRAM maximum size (2 GB per DIMM) at present, the

memory maximum size we have tested is 8 GB.