ECS P45T-A2R User Manual

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Introducing the Motherboard

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Supports DDR2 800/667 DDR2 SDRAM with Dual-channel architecture

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Accommodates four unbuffered DIMMs

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Up to 4 GB per DIMM with maximum memory size up to 16 GB

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5.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec

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ADCs supports 44k/48k/96kHz sample rate

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Meets Microsoft WLP 3.08 Vista premium and mobile PCs audio require-

ments

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Direct Sound 3D

TM

 compatible

This motherboard uses 

an LGA775 type of 

Intel

®

  Yorkfield/Wolfdale 

that carries

th

e following features:

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Accommodates Intel

®

 Yorkfield/Wolfdale processors

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Supports a system bus (FSB) of 1333/1066/800 MHz

The P45 Northbridge (NB) and ICH10R Southbridge (SB) chipsets are based on an
innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and performance.

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Supports 36-bit host bus addressing, allowing the

CPU to access the entire 64 GB of the memory ad-
dress space.

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2 GB/s point-to-point Direct Media Interface (DMI) to

ICH10 (1 GB/s each direction)

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One PCI Express x16 slot,

 intended for Graphics In-

terface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base
Specification Revision 

2.0.

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Supports 512-Mb and 1-Gb DDR2 and 512-Mb, 1-Gb,

and 2-Gb DDR3 DRAM technologies for x8 and x16
devices

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Enhanced DMA Controller, interrupt controller, and timer

functions

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Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification, revi-

sion 1.1

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Compliant with PCI v2.3 specification

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Compliant with SATA 3.0 Gb/s Host Controller

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Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to

twelve USB 2.0 ports

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Supports Intel

®

 Matrix Storage Technology, providing

both AHCI and RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 configuration (op-
tional for ICH10R only)