Elitegroup 848P-A7 (1.0)

Elitegroup 848P-A7 (1.0) ... desktop markets. The motherboard incorporates the 848P Northbridge (NB) and ICH5 Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports a Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of 800/533 MHz with maximum theoretical BW of 6.4 GB/s. The memory controller supports DDR memory DIMM frequencies of 400/333/266 MHz. It supports two DDR Sockets with up to maximum memory of 2 GB. DDR Maximum memory bandwidth of 3.2 GB/s in single-channel mode is supported. One AGP interface supports AGP 3.0 including 8X/4X AGP Data Transfers and 8X/4X Fast Write Protocol.

The ICH5 Southbridge supports six PCI slots, which are PCI 2.3 compliant. It accommodates eight USB 2.0 ports for Serial Transfers at maximum 480Mb/s. This motherboard complies with AC' 97 2.3 codecs and supports up to six channels of PCM audio output (full AC3 decode). Two onboard IDE connectors support 4 IDE devices in ATA-100/66/33 mode. The Southbridge integrates two Serial ATA host controllers that is SATA v1.0 compliant, supporting two SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 150 MB/s each. The 848P-A7 motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, one serial port, one parallel port, four USB ports, one optional LAN port, and audio jacks for microphone in, line-in and line-out.