Specifications
2
Introducing the Motherboard
Feature
Processor
This motherboard uses an LGA775 type of Intel
®
Core
™
2 Extreme/Core
™
2 Quad/
Core
™
2 Duo/Pentium
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
400 series that
carries the following features:
• Accommodates Intel
®
Core
™
2 Extreme/Core
™
2 Quad/Core
™
2 Duo/
Pentium
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
Dual-Core/Celeron
®
400 series proces-
sors
• Supports a system bus (FSB) of 1333/1066/800 MHz
Chipset
• Supports DDR3 1066/800 DDR3 SDRAM with Dual-channel architec-
ture
• Accommodates four unbuffered DIMMs
• 4 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM socket support up to 8 GB*
Memory
Audio
• 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec
• ADCs supports 96k/48k/44.1kHz sample rate
• Meets Microsoft WLP 3.08 Vista premium and mobile PCs audio require-
ments
• Direct Sound 3D
TM
compatible
The P43 Northbridge (NB) and ICH10 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are based on an
innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and performance.
P43 (NB)
• Supports 36-bit host bus addressing, allowing the
CPU to access the entire 64 GB of the memory ad-
dress space.
• 2 GB/s point-to-point Direct Media Interface (DMI) to
ICH10 (1 GB/s each direction)
• One, 16-lane PCI Express x16 port for Graphics At-
tach, compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification
revision 2.0
• Supports 512-Mb, 1-Gb and 2-Gb DDR3 and 512-Mb,
1-Gb,and 2-Gb DDR2 DRAM technologies for x8 and
x16 devices
ICH10 (SB)
• Enhanced DMA Controller, interrupt controller, and timer
functions
• Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification, revi-
sion 1.1
• Compliant with PCI v2.3 specificaiton
• Compliant with SATA 3.0 Gb/s Host Controller
• Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller
*Due to the DRAM maximum size (2 GB per DIMM) at present, the
memory maximum size we have tested is 8 GB.