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.