Gigabyte GA-8GEMT4: Chapter 1 Introduction

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Chapter 1 Introduction

Features Summary

Form Factor — 24.4cm x 22cm Micro-ATX size form factor, 4 layers PCB.

Motherboard — GA-8GEMT4 Series Motherboard:

GA-8GEMT4 and GA-8GEMT4-C

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CPU — Socket 478 for Intel

Micro FC-PGA2 Pentium

4 processor

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— Support Intel

Pentium

4 (Northwood, 0.13 m) processor

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— Support Intel

Pentium

4 Processor with HT Technology

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— Intel Pentium

4 400/533MHz FSB

— 2nd cache depends on CPU

Chipset — Chipset Intel 845GE HOST/AGP/Controller

— ICH4 I/O Controller Hub

Memory — 2 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets

— Supports DDR333/DDR266 DIMM

— Supports up to 2GB DRAM (Max)

— Supports only 2.5V DDR DIMM

I/O Control — IT8712

Slots — 1 AGP slot 4X (1.5V) device support

— 3 PCI slot supports 33MHz & PCI 2.2 compliant

On-Board IDE — 2 IDE bus master (UDMA33/ATA66/ATA100) IDE ports

for up to 4 ATAPI devices

— Supports PIO mode3,4 (UDMA 33/ATA66/ATA100) IDE

& ATAPICD-ROM

On-Board Peripherals — 1 Floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K,1.2M, 1.44M

and 2.88M bytes.

— 1 Parallel port supports Normal/EPP/ECP mode

— 2 Serial ports (COMA&COMB);1 VGA Port

— 6 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (2 x Rear, 4 xFront by cable)

— 1 Front Audio Connector

— 1 IrDA connector for IR/CIR

— 1 MODEN connector(*)

— 1 Front Audio connector

MDue to (Intel 845PE/GE/GV) chipset architecture limitation, DDR 333 memory module is

only supported when using FSB 533 Pentium 4 processor. A FSB 400 Pentium 4 processor ......

will only support DDR 266 memory module

to be continued......

“ * ” Only for GA-8GEMT4.

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