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Introducing the Motherboard

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing C51G-M2 motherboard of great performance and with enhanced

function. The C51G-M2 is designed to fit the AMD K8 processors in the 939-pin package.

Based on the Micro ATX form factor, measuring 244 mm x 224 mm, this motherboard

incorporates the following chipsets: C51G Northbridge and MCP51G Southbridge chipsets.

The C51G Northbridge features the HyperTransport Technology up to 1.0 GHz for a total

bandwidth of 8.0 GT/s. Two 184-pin unbuffered DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets support DDR

400/333/266 with maximum 2 GB in total memory. One PCI Express x16 slot, intended for

Graphics interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.

The MCP51G Southbridge is a highly integrated media and communications processor

(MCP) with up to 800 MHz HyperTransport link interface. It supports three PCI slots

which are PCI 2.3 compliant. With the integrated SATA II controller onboard, this

motherboard supports two drives up to 3.0 Gb/s per direction per channel. USB 2.0 En-

hanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) provides up to 8 USB 2.0 ports. The MCP51G

supports advanced system and power management features with integrated system power

sequencing support.

There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and

keyboard connectors, LPT1, four USB ports at the rear I/O, one optional LAN port, one

VGA port, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in, and line-out.