Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) is shipping a RoHS compliant motherboard designed around Intel’s Viiv Technology.

The 945G-M3 Micro-ATX M/B (£57.50) offers a good range of digital media features and performance, utilising the full capabilities of Intel’s 945G Express chipset and ICH7DH South Bridge.

The DH in the South Bridge stands for ‘Digital Home,’ reflecting the 945G-M3 M/B’s ability to support recording, storage and playback of a wide variety of digital media with quality previously impossible to achieve with a PC motherboard without expensive add-on graphic and audio cards. The 945G-M3 is one of several new ECS motherboards manufactured to full RoHS compliance.

The 945G-M3, using Intel Viiv technology, should bring high quality digital entertainment to the home or office, while also delivering an affordable, solid platform with great connectivity that you can grow with. The Intel 945G Express Chipset features the integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 950, which provides low-end 3D performance but should playback video smoothly.

Several display types are supported, including High Definition TV (HDTV) and digital flat panels. Eight-channel audio is also supported, which enables 7.1 surround sound common with home theatre systems.

The Socket 775 945G-M3 M/B is optimised for Dual Core Pentium D processors, giving it strong multitasking ability that frees-up CPU resources during more intensive applications such as video rendering and playback.

A Serial ATA 3Gbit/s interface is provided that offers super fast HDD storage. One PCI-Express x16 slot and one PCI-Express x 1 slot are provided, along with one IDE ATA100, eight USB 2.0 ports, FireWire and Gigabit Ethernet. Four slots for up to 4GB of Dual Channel DDR2 667 memory is available.

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BIOS, Mar 01, 06 | Print | Send | Comments (0) | Posted In Motherboard