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GIGABYTE: GA-EP45-DQ6 (rev. 1.0)

GA-EP45-DQ6 (rev. 1.0)
Intel® P45 Chipset


Revolution energy saving design with DES Advanced featuring hardware based Dynamic 6-Gear switching
Supports 45nm Intel® Core™ 2 multi-core processors with FSB 1600 MHz
Advanced power phase design with virtual 12 power phases to provides highly efficient operation for 45nm CPU
Dual channel DDR2 1333+ for remarkable system performance
Embedded 2 power phases for NB chipset and memory power to excel at power efficiency
2 PCI-E 2.0 x16 graphic interface plus 2 PCI-E x4 with CrossFireX™ support for ultimate graphics performance
Built-in TPM chip with 2048bits encryption to highest level digital data protection
Smart Backup provides data backup solution with 4 serial ATA device attachment from 2 hardware RAID chip
Diagnostic LED and ACPI LEDs on board to display system and power status
4 Gigabit Ethernet LAN with Teaming functionality
Supports Dolby Home Theater® audio to create a stunning surround sound listening experience.
Quad BIOS solution gives a multiple security to the system
Power/reset/Clr CMOS onboard button for easily operation on the workbench
Hardware Overvoltage Control IC Provides more voltage control options on CPU, North bridge and memory
Blu-ray playback outputs supported by high quality 106dB SNR ALC889A HD audio

(Note) This motherboard is designed with VRD11.1 power phase, and cannot be compatible with VRD10 designed CPU. Please refer to "CPU Support List" for details.


Specifications
CPU
  1. Support for an Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme processor/ Intel® Core™ 2 Quad processor/Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor/ Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor/Intel® Celeron® processor in the LGA 775 package
    (Note) This motherboard is designed with VRD11.1 power phase, and cannot be compatible with VRD10 designed CPU. Please refer to "CPU Support List" for details.
  2. L2 cache varies with CPU
Front Side Bus
  1. 1600/1333/1066/800 MHz FSB
Chipset
  1. North Bridge: Intel® P45 Express Chipset
  2. South Bridge: Intel® ICH10R
Memory
  1. 4 x 1.8V DDR2 DIMM sockets supporting up to 16 GB of system memory
  2. Dual channel memory architecture
  3. Support for DDR2 1333+/1066/800/667 MHz memory modules
    (Refer to Memory support list for more information)
Audio
  1. Realtek ALC889A codec
  2. High Definition Audio
  3. 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
  4. Support for Dolby Home Theater
  5. Support for S/PDIF In/Out
  6. Support for CD In
LAN
  1. 4 x Realtek 8111C chips (10/100/1000 Mbit)
  2. Support for Teaming
Expansion Slots
  1. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16
  2. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x8
    (The PCIEx16 and PCIEx8 slots support ATI CrossFireX technology and conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)
  3. 2 x PCI Express x4 slots
  4. 1 x PCI Express x1 slot
  5. 2 x PCI slots
Storage InterfaceSouth Bridge:
  1. 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATAII0, SATAII1, SATAII2, SATAII3, SATAII4, SATAII5) supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices
  2. Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
GIGABYTE SATA2 chip:
  1. 1 x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices
  2. 2 x SiI5723 chips (Smart Backup): -4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (GS0-Source, GS1, GS2-Source, GS3) supporting up to 4 SATA 3Gb/s devices - Support for Smart Backup (RAID 1)
iTE IT8720 chip:
  1. 1 x floppy disk drive connector supporting up to 1 floppy disk drive
IEEE 1394a
  1. T.I. TSB43AB23 chip
  2. Up to 3 IEEE 1394a ports
    (via the IEEE 1394a brackets connected to the internal IEEE 1394a headers)
USB
  1. Integrated in the South Bridge
  2. Up to 12 USB 2.0/1.1 ports
    (8 on the back panel, 4 via the USB brackets connected to the internal USB headers)
Internal I/O Connectors
  1. 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
  2. 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
  3. 1 x floppy disk drive connector
  4. 1 x IDE connector
  5. 10 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors
  6. 1 x CPU fan header
  7. 2 x system fan headers
  8. 1 x power fan header
  9. 1 x front panel header
  10. 1 x front panel audio header
  11. 1 x CD In connector
  12. 1 x S/PDIF In header
  13. 1 x S/PDIF Out header
  14. 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
  15. 3 x IEEE 1394a headers
  16. 1 x serial port header
  17. 1 x chassis intrusion header
  18. 1 x power LED header
  19. 1 x power switch
  20. 1 x reset switch
  21. 1 x clearing CMOS switch
Back Panel Connectors
  1. 1 x PS/2 keyboard port
  2. 1 x PS/2 mouse port
  3. 1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
  4. 1 x coaxial S/PDIF Out connector
  5. 8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
  6. 4 x RJ-45 ports
  7. 6 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/Side Speaker Out/Line In/Line Out/Microphone)
I/O Controller
  1. iTE IT8720 chip
H/W Monitoring
  1. System voltage detection
  2. CPU/System temperature detection
  3. CPU/System/Power fan speed detection
  4. CPU overheating warning
  5. CPU/System/Power fan fail warning
  6. CPU/System fan speed control
BIOS
  1. 2 x 8 Mbit flash
  2. Use of licensed AWARD BIOS
  3. Support for DualBIOS™
  4. PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.4, ACPI 1.0b
Unique Features
  1. Support for @BIOS
  2. Support for Q-Flash
  3. Support for Quad BIOS
  4. Support for Download Center
  5. Support for Xpress Install
  6. Support for Xpress Recovery2
  7. Support for EasyTune
  8. Support for Dynamic Energy Saver Advanced
  9. Support for Ultra TPM
  10. Support for Time Repair
  11. Support for Q-Share
Bundle Software
  1. Norton Internet Security (OEM version)
Operating System
  1. Support for Microsoft/ Windows/ Vista/XP
Form Factor
  1. ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 24.4cm

Driver

Audio
DownloadDateDescriptionVersionSize
Download from ...2009/01/22Realtek Function driver for Realtek Azalia audio chip (Including Microsoft UAA Driver in English edition)
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows® XP,Windows® XP 64bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 32bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64bit,Windows Vista x86 (32-bit),Windows Vista x64 (64-bit)
R2.0739.54 MB
Download from ...2008/12/24Realtek Function driver for Realtek Azalia audio chip
(This audio driver together with Creative Utility enableds X-Fi crystallizer, X-Fi CMSS-3D,EAX®ADVANCED HD4.0)
O.S. : Windows Vista x86 (32-bit)
6.0.1.570038.64 MB
Download from ...2008/12/23 Sound Blaster X-Fi MB utility (30-day trial version) PART1
features X-Fi crystalizer, X-Fi CMSS-3D,EAX®ADVANCED HD4.0. (Please update audio driver ver 6.0.1.5700 before install utility to enable Creative features)
Please download all 3 parts then execute part1.exe
Know more about X-Fi
http://www.creative.com/oem/technology/x-fi.asp
O.S. : Windows Vista x86 (32-bit)
9.1.0.42970.00 MB
Download from ...2008/12/23 Sound Blaster X-Fi MB utility (30-day trial version) PART2
Please download all 3 parts then execute part1.exe
O.S. : Windows Vista x86 (32-bit)
9.1.0.42970.00 MB
Download from ...2008/12/22 Sound Blaster X-Fi MB utility (30-day trial version) PART3
Please download all 3 parts then execute part1.exe
O.S. : Windows Vista x86 (32-bit)
9.1.0.42944.21 MB
Download from ...2006/10/03Microsoft UAA (Universal Audio Architecture) Bus driver (Full Multi-language version )
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows® XP,Windows Server 2003
5.10.0.501029.87 MB

Chipset
DownloadDateDescriptionVersionSize
Download from ...2008/10/15Intel INF installation
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows® XP,Windows® XP 64bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 32bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64bit,Windows Vista x86 (32-bit),Windows Vista x64 (64-bit)
9.1.0.10072.34 MB

LAN
DownloadDateDescriptionVersionSize
Download from ...2009/01/22Realtek 8111/8169 LAN Driver
O.S. : Windows 98,Windows Me,Windows 2000,Windows® XP 32bit,Windows® XP 64bit
5.708.1030.20083.55 MB
Download from ...2009/01/22Realtek LAN Driver
O.S. : Windows Vista x86 (32-bit),Windows Vista x64 (64-bit)
6.213.1110.20084.16 MB

SATA RAID
DownloadDateDescriptionVersionSize
Download from ...2008/09/15Intel ICH9R/ICH10R SATA RAID Driver
O.S. : Windows® XP,Windows® XP 64bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 32bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64bit,Window XP Media Center Edition,Windows Vista x86 (32-bit),Windows Vista x64 (64-bit)
8.5.0.103225.23 MB
Download from ...2008/09/15Intel ICH9R/ICH10R Driver (Preinstall driver)
Note: Press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy. (For non-VISTA operating systems)
O.S. : Windows® XP,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 32bit,Windows Vista x86 (32-bit)
8.5.0.10320.28 MB
Download from ...2008/09/15Intel ICH9R/ICH10R Driver (Preinstall driver)
Note: Press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy. (For non-VISTA operating systems)
O.S. : Windows® XP 64bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64bit,Windows Vista x64 (64-bit)
8.5.0.10320.30 MB
Download from ...2008/09/14GIGABYTE SATA2 Driver
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows® XP 32bit,Windows® XP 64bit,Windows Vista x86 (32-bit),Windows Vista x64 (64-bit)
1.17.39.073.14 MB

Tool
DownloadDateDescriptionVersionSize
Download from ...2008/12/11 Infineon TPM
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows® XP,Windows® XP 64bit,Windows Vista x86 (32-bit),Windows Vista x64 (64-bit)
V3.0.277.07 MB



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