GA-EP45-EXTREME (rev. 1.0)
Intel® P45 + ICH10R Chipset
I have included a three way comparison with P35/X48/P45 to illustrate the differences between the chipsets.
Immediately, we can see that the P45 is similar to the P35 in many ways, although there are a few key changes.
P45 supports up to a massive 16GB of memory officially, whereas the X48 and P35 support 8GB each.
DDr3 However is limited to 8GB.
Curiously, Intel don't list any support for their own Extreme processors, something which I suspect is an error in their literature. There appear to be more errors in the table of supported
FSB/memory configurations too, once I find out the correct details, I will update this part.
Surprisingly, there is no official support for 1600FSB CPUs, just like the P35. Although this board does support it.
PCI-E 2 is limited to either a single 16x slot, or dual 8x slots.
Another error in the table appears to show that the ICH10R has less features than the ICH9R - I will find out more on this and update as needed.
1. Revolution energy saving design with DES Advanced featuring hardware based Dynamic 6-Gear switching
2. Supports 45nm Intel® Core™ 2 multi-core processors with
FSB 1600 MHz
3. Deal channel DDR2 1200 for remarkable system performance
4. Advanced power phase design with virtual 12 power phases to provides highly efficient operation for 45nm CPU
5. Embedded 2 power phases for
NB chipset and 2 phases for memory power to excel at power efficiency
6. 2
PCI-E 2.0 x16 graphic interface plus
PCI-E x4 with CrossFireX ™ support for ultimate graphics performance
7. Hardware Overvoltage Control IC Provides more voltage control options on CPU, North bridge and memory
8. All Copper Heat pipe/Heat sink connecting
NB,
SB, and MOSFET and extra Hybrid Silent-Pipe design provides 30% cooler thermal performance
9. Professed onboard Debug LED and OV-Alert LED, OC-Alert LED, TMP-Alert LED allows user to easily catch on to PC status
10. 2 Gigabit Ethernet LAN with Teaming functionality
11. Supports Dolby Home Theater® audio to create a stunning surround sound listening experience.
12. DualBIOS solution gives a multiple security to the system
13. Power/reset/Clr
CMOS onboard button for easily operation on th workbench
14. Maximum CPU keep out zone for extreme CPU cooling
15. Blu-ray playback outputs supported by high quality 106dB SNR ALC889A HD audio
(Note) This motherboard is designed with VRD11.1 power phase, and cannot be compatible with VRD10 designed CPU. Please refer to "CPU Support List" for details.