ECS P45T-A (Intel P45)
ECS P45T-A: Layout and Features
The complaints to the board's design are as follows: it is very inconvenient to plug in a power cable to the additional 4-pin connector which is somewhere near the northern bridge. Another issue is in blocking the DIMM slots by the first PCI Express card.
Near the CPU socket, there is a 4-pin CPU_FAN1 connector for a matching cooler.
Besides it, there is one more 4-pin connector SYS_FAN1 (near the north bridge), and a 3-pin CASE_FAN connector (near the south bridge).
The motherboard uses a fully passive system for cooling the chipset, and the power supply module gets by without additional radiators.
Under the north bridge, there are four 240-pin DIMM slots for DDR2 memory modules. They are partitioned into two groups, each having two slots. The first two slots refer to the first controller channel, with the other two to the second controller.
Note that the board supports DDR2-667/800 memory, and the maximum memory capacity makes 16 GB.
There are two PCI Express x16 slots onboard (with latches) which are meant for video cards.
Unlike the P35, this Intel's new chipset allows for a symmetrical distribution of PCI Express bus lanes among the slots following the 8+8 scheme, which allows providing a better efficiency of the CrossFire. Besides, the P45 chipset supports the PCI Express v2.0 bus that offers a two-fold bandwidth. We also note that there are two "regular" PCI and two PCI Express x1 slots onboard.
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