The motherboard determines what kind of case, CPU and memory a computer can use.
Gigabyte Technology is one of the top selling motherboard manufacturers in the world with an annual revenue of $2.5 billion in FY2010. Like many motherboard manufacturers, it produces dozens of different variants on similar motherboards that mostly differ in terms of form factor, memory types supported and CPU manufacturer. This series has been discontinued due to changing standards.
General
The 8S661FHMP-RZ is an Intel motherboard with a micro-ATX (244mm x 232mm/9.6in x 9.1in) form factor. The northbridge/southbridge chipsets are SiS661FX / SiS964, with a maximum front side bus of 800mHZ. The northbridge also includes onboard video, network, SATA controller and sound processor chips.
CPU and Memory Support
The CPU socket type on this motherboard is Socket 478, which can support many CPU's from the Pentium 4 range (Williamette, Northwood, Prescott, Extreme Edition), as well as the lower-spec Celeron range. This socket type does not support dual-core processors, but it does support HyperThreading. The memory type supported is DDR SDRAM, with two DIMM slots. The maximum amount of supported RAM is 2.0 GB.
Expansion Slots
The 8S661FHMP-RZ is one of the last boards manufactured before PCI-Express became standard for both video cards and other expansion cards. There is one dedicated video AGP x4/x8 slot and three PCI 2.2 expansion slots.
Input / Output
Internal connectors include two SATA-133 connectors and one SATA-150 connector, two USB 2.0 connectors that support support two devices each and one PATA port for a floppy disk attachment. Rear panel external I/O ports include line-in, line-out and microphone audio ports, one RJ-45 port for built-in ethernet, COM, LPT and game serial ports, PS/2 connectors for mouse and keyboard and USB 2.0 connectors.
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