Biostar I945P-A7 (Intel 945P)
Biostar I945P-A7 Board Layout
Among the shortcomings of the board is the blocking of DIMM slots latches with a full-length video card installed in the first PCI Express slot.
Also, the main power connector is positioned inconveniently - near the north bridge. The additional 4-pin connector is positioned better - on the board's right-hand edge.
Near the processor socket, there is a 4-pin connector (JCFAN1) for a cooler. Besides it, there is also one more 3-pin connector: JSFAN2 - in the bottom left corner.
To cool the north bridge, a mid-sized radiator is used:
Under the north bridge, there are four 240-pin DIMM slots for DDR2 memory modules. They are partitioned into two groups with two slots in each. The first two slots refer to the first controller channel, with the other two to the second controller.
The board offers support for DDR2-400,533 and 667; and the maximum memory capacity makes 4GB.
There are two PCI Express x16 slots onboard (both with latches) which are meant for video cards.
This allows operating two nVidia video cards in the SLI mode at a time, and potentially - ATI Crossfire. The distribution of lines is standard (for the i945P chipset): to the first slot 16 lines of PCI Express are allocated, with 4 lines left to the second slot.
Besides the above listed slots, Biostar I945P-A7 uses three more "regular" PCI slots and two PCI Express x1 slots.
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