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Chapter 1
Introduction of Intel G31 Motherboard Series
1-1 Features of motherboard
The Intel G31 chipset motherboard series are based on the latest Intel G31 Express Chipset
and Intel FW82801GB ICH Chipset technology which supports the innovative 65nm and 90nm
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor，Celeron 4xx Processor, Dual-Core Intel® Pentium® D Processor
8 and 9 Series, Intel® Core 2 Quad, Intel® Core 2 Duo® (Code Name: Conroe) Processor
with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology and fully supports the future 45nm processors. The
motherboard is optimized to deliver innovative features and professional desktop platform
solution with the advantages of the new generation dual core Intel® Core 2 Duo® Processor for
those who demand the best experience of personal computing. Through the high bandwidth of
dual channel DDR2 533MHz/DDR2 667MHz /DDR2 800 system memories which are
expandable to 4.0GB and the next generation PCI Express interface for the latest graphics
cards from both NVIDIA & ATI.
The Intel G31 chipset motherboard series for Intel® Core 2 Quad and Intel® Core 2
Duo®Processor are absolutely the cost-effective solution for game enthusiasts and
applications, and it also meets the demanding usage of computing of gaming, multimedia
entertainment and business applications. Moreover, the Intel G31 express chipset incorporates
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 with a core frequency up to 400MHz which support the
Microsoft* DirectX* 9, Vertex Shader 2.0 Open GL1.4, hardware T&L, Clear Video
Technology and Windows Vista Aero to provide you incredible visual quality, faster graphics
performance and flexible display options without the need for a separate graphics card.
The motherboards implement Intel G31 Express Chipset which supports Front Side Bus
1333MHz/1066MHz/800MHz of data transferring and offers with 200MHz/266/333MHz
memory clock frequency for Dual channel DDR2 400/DDR2 533/DDR2 667/DDR800
memory DIMMs to double the performance of memory access. The motherboard is embedded
with ICH7 chipset of providing one parallel Ultra ATA 100 interface for two IDE drives and
four serial ATA2 interface of 3.0Gb / s data transfer rate for four serial ATA devices.
The G31 motherboard series offer one PCI-Express x16 graphics slot of 4Gbyte/sec data
transfer rate at each relative direction which gets 3.5 times of bandwidth more than AGP 8X
and up to 8Gbyte/sec peak concurrent bandwidth at full speed to guarantee the ultimate GPU
computing performance. One PCI Express x1 I/O slots offer 512Mbyte/sec concurrently
bandwidth which is over 3.5 times than 32-bit PCI at 133Mbye/sec; Two 32-bit PCI slots
guarantee the rich connectivity for the I/O of peripherals. The motherboards are designed of
tackling the profuse multimedia requirements nowadays.
The motherboards provide optional 10/100 Ethernet LAN function by using the Realtek RTL
8042 megabit LAN NIC or 10/ 100/1000 Ethernet LAN function by using the Marvell
88E8056B1 gigabit NIC LAN NIC. The optional embedded Realtek ALC662-GR/ALC883
chipset is fully compatible with Sound Blaster Prostandards providing Azalia 6-CH/8-CH
Audio CODEC offers you with the home cinema quality and satisfying software
compatibility.
