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Intel® Desktop Board D945GCZ
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The Intel® Desktop Board D945GCZ delivers new levels of performance and flexibility to the Digital Office and Digital Home. Based on the Intel® 945G Express Chipset, this board supports dual-core processing, Intel® EM64Tφ, and advanced Intel® GMA950 on-board or PCI Express Graphics.

The Intel® Desktop Board D945GCZ is Microsoft Windows Vista* Premium ready. The Intel® 945G Express Chipset fully supports the visually stunning Windows Aero* user interface with amazing transition effects and realistic animations.

Intel® Desktop Board D945GCZ
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Intel® Desktop Board D945GCZ features
Features Benefits
Form factor microBTX (10.40 inches by 10.50 inches [264.16 mm by 266.70 mm])
Processor
Support for an Intel® Pentium® D Processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor in an LGA775 socket with a 800 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Celeron® D Processor in an LGA775 socket with a 533 MHz system bus
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Memory
Four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM sockets
Support for DDR2 667, DDR2 533, or DDR2 400 MHz DIMMs
Support for up to 4 GB of system memory
Chipset Intel® 945G Chipset
I/O control Legacy I/O controller for diskette drive, serial, parallel, and PS/2 ports
Audio Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem using one of the following configurations:
8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and one S/PDIF optical digital audio output using the Sigmatel 9223 audio codec
6-channel (5.1) audio subsystem with three analog audio outputs using the Sigmatel 9220 audio codec
Video Intel® GMA950 onboard graphics subsystem
LAN support The board provides one of the following:
Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82573E/82573V/82574V Gigabit Ethernet Controller
10/100 Mbits/sec LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82562GX/82562GZ Platform LAN Connect (PLC) device
Peripheral interfaces
Eight USB 2.0 ports
One serial port
One parallel port
Four Serial ATA interfaces
One parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support
One diskette drive interface
PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports
Expansion capabilities
Two PCI Conventional* bus connectors
One PCI Express* x1 bus add-in card connector
One PCI Express* x16 bus add-in card connector
Microsoft Vista* Premium ready With a PC built with Intel® Core™2 Duo or Intel® Core™2 Quad processors, and the Intel® Desktop Board, you can experience a more responsive and manageable environment of Microsoft Windows Vista* including a new visual sophistication of the Windows Aero* interface.
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Processors
Intel® Pentium® D Processor
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor
Intel® Celeron® D Processor
Chipsets Intel® 945G Chipset
Φ Intel® EM64T requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, operating system, device drivers and applications enabled for Intel EM64T. Processor will not operate (including 32-bit operation) without an Intel EM64T-enabled BIOS. Performance will vary depending on your hardware and software configurations. Intel EM64T-enabled OS, BIOS, device drivers and applications may not be available. See www.intel.com/technology/architecture-silicon/intel64/ for more information including details on which processors support Intel EM64T or consult with your system vendor for more information.

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