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1 Product Description
What This Chapter Contains
1.1 PCI Bus Terminology Change.................................................................................... 11
1.2 Overview.................................................................................................................... 12
1.3 Online Support........................................................................................................... 17
1.4 Processor................................................................................................................... 17
1.5 System Memory......................................................................................................... 18
1.6 Intel
®
915P Chipset.................................................................................................... 23
1.7 PCI Express Connectors............................................................................................ 26
1.8 I/O Controller ............................................................................................................. 26
1.9 Audio Subsystem ....................................................................................................... 28
1.10 LAN Subsystem ......................................................................................................... 30
1.11 Hardware Management Subsystem ........................................................................... 32
1.12 Power Management................................................................................................... 34
1.13 Trusted Platform Module (Optional) ........................................................................... 41
1.1 PCI Bus Terminology Change
Previous generations of Intel
®
Desktop Boards used an add-in card connector referred to as PCI.
This generation of Intel Desktop Boards adds a new technology for add-in cards: PCI Express.
The 32-bit parallel bus previously referred to as PCI is now called PCI Conventional.