Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L Motherboard
Realtek ALC889A deal to support 7.1-channel audio in the six audio jack, optical and coaxial SPDIF, and two chip Realtek 8111C, which provides two LAN connector. Meanwhile, the Firewire connection is supported by a Texas Instrument chip TSB43AB23.
The GA-EP45-DS3L has four DIMM slots in the upper right hand corner next to the 24-pin ATX and FDD connectors, but this time around, the memory interface is for DDR2. The P45 motherboard supports up to 16GB of DDR2 memory with supported speeds of DDR2-1200/1066/800/667MHz.
Surrounding the Intel ICH10 Southbridge are six Serial ATA 2.0 ports, one IDE connector, two USB 2.0 headers, front panel header, and the CMOS battery. The expansion slots on this motherboard include four PCI Express x1, two PCI, and one PCI Express x16. The lone PCI Express x16 slot is PCI-E 2.0 compliant.
At the I/O panel are two PS/2 ports, optical S/PDIF output, coaxial S/PDIF output, eight USB 2.0, one Gigabit Ethernet and six audio jacks. Some of the other ASICs on the GA-EP45-DS3L include a Realtek ALC888 HD audio codec, a Realtek 8111C Gigabit Ethernet adapter, JMicron 368 IDE, and ITE IT8718 Super I/O.
The GA-EP45-DS3L uses an Award BIOS. Gigabyte has its MIT, or Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker, menu for offering all of the overclocking settings. There is the CPU frequency control, DRAM tweaking options, voltage adjustments, and other extras such as Gigabyte’s CIA2 or CPU Intelligent Accelerator 2. The settings and ranges for the voltage/frequency controls should be enough to satisfy even the diehard enthusiasts. One important note is that the BIOS/motherboard had incorrectly identified the Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor as having a clock ratio of 8x instead of 9x, which requires adjusting.
Features
* Northbridge: Intel P45
* Southbridge: Intel ICH10R
* Socket: LGA775
* Memory Support: 16GB DDR2 1333+ SDRAM
* Graphics Options: 1 x16 PCI-E
* Audio: 8-Channel HD Audio
* 12 USB 2.0 Ports (8 on the back panel, 4 via the USB brackets connected to the internal USB headers), 4 x1 PCI-E Slot, 2 PCI Slots, 6 SATA-3Gb/s Connectors
* Realtek Gigabit LAN Connection
* Quiet System Technology
* Norton Internet Security bundled with motherboard
* Size: 30.5cm x 21.0cm
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