Specifications

1-2 Chapter 1: Product introduction
1.3 Special features
1.3.1 Product highlights
Latest processor technology
The motherboard comes with a 775-pin surface mount Land Grid Array
(LGA) socket designed for the Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 processor in the 775-land
package. The motherboard supports the Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 processor with
1066/800 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB). The motherboard also supports the
Intel
®
Hyper-Threading Technology and is fully compatible with Intel
®
O6,
05B/05A or 04B/04A processors. See page 2-6 for details.
Intel
®
EM64T
The motherboard supports Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 CPUs with the Intel
®
EM64T
(Extended Memory 64 Technology). The Intel
®
EM64T feature allows your
computer to run on 64-bit operating systems and access larger amounts of
system memory for faster and more efcient computing.
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep
®
Technology (EIST)
The Enhanced Intel SpeedStep
®
Technology (EIST) intelligently manages
the CPU resources by automatically adjusting the CPU voltage and core
frequency depending on the CPU loading and system speed or power
requirement.
Intel
®
E3000 and Intel
®
ICH7R chipset
The Intel
®
E3000 Memory Controller Hub (MCH) and the Intel
®
ICH7R (I/O
controller hub) provide the vital interfaces for the motherboard.
The MCH provides the processor, dual-channel DDR2-533/667 memory,
and PCI Express interfaces. The ICH7R is a new generation server class I/O
controller hub that provides the interface for PCI 2.3, USB 2.0, and SATA
among others.
DDR2-667 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory which features data transfer
rates of up to 667 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the
latest server applications. The dual-channel memory architecture doubles
the bandwidth of your system memory to boost system performance,
eliminating bottlenecks with peak bandwidths of up to 10.7 GB/s.
PCI Express™ interface
The motherboard fully supports PCI Express, the latest I/O interconnect
technology that speeds up the PCI bus. PCI Express features point-to-point
serial interconnections between devices and allows higher clockspeeds by
carrying data in packets. This high speed interface is software compatible
with existing PCI or PCI-X specications. See page 2-17 for details.