3301690 CPU Card
2.3 Onboard Chipsets
2.3.1 Northbridge and Southbridge Chipsets
The following chipsets are preinstalled on the board:
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Northbridge: Intel
®
915GV
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Southbridge: Intel
®
ICH6
The following two sections (Section 2.3.2 and Section 2.3.3) lists some of the features of
the Intel
®
915GV and the Intel
®
ICH6 chipsets. For more information on these two chipsets
please refer to the Intel website.
2.3.2 Intel
®
915GV Northbridge Chipset
The Intel
®
915GV northbridge chipset comes with the following features:
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Supports 800MHz or 533MHz System Bus
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Supports Intel
®
HT Technology
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Implements Intel
®
Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (GMA 900)
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Implements PCI Express (PCI-E) technology
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Supports DDR2 DIMM memory modules
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Integrates a SATA controller that controls four 150MB/s SATA channels
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Integrates Intel
®
High Definition Audio for new audio formats
2.3.3 Intel
®
ICH6 Southbridge Chipset
The Intel
®
ICH6 southbridge chipset comes with the following features:
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Complies with PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.0a
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Complies with PCI Local Bus Specification Revision 2.3 and supports 33MHz
PCI operation
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Supports ACPI power management
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Integrates SATA host controller with independent DMA operation on four ports
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Supports Ultra ATA 100/66/33 with an integrated IDE controller]
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Supports eight USB 2.0 ports but only seven are implemented on the
3301690
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Supports AC’97 Revision 2.3 Specifications
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