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| The bulk of this page is devoted to identifying various
components on the Intel D815EEAA that will be of interest to us as we
build our system. (click on the picture for a larger view). Here
we identify the PCI slots, the cdrom sound connector and the AGP slot.
The Intel D815EEAA comes with on-board video that can be disabled so you
can use other video cards with additional memory and other features. |
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| Here we identify the CPU socket and the floppy connector. The CPU
socket is meant for the FCPGA style of processor. FCPGA means Flip Chip
Pin Grid Array. (click on the picture for a larger view) |
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| Here we identify the primary IDE interface, which also happens to be
the Ultra ATA channel. By the way an IDE interface is what we use
to connect the hard drive to the mainboard. Ultra ATA is a faster
version of the standard. It is featured on all current IDE type hard
drives. If you want to get the performance of Ultra ATA make sure you
only put Ultra ATA drives on this channel (cable). (click on the picture
for a larger view) |
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The secondary IDE interface is the preferred place to plug in your CD
ROM or DVD drive or any other non-Ultra ATA device. It runs at the
slower standard speed.
(click on the picture for a larger view) |
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| Here we identify the ATX power supply mainboard connector. This is
what feeds power to the mainboard. If you look at it closely there is a
small protruding edge to the connector that will lock the power
cables into place. |
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| The Intel D815EEAA can accommodate up to three SDIMM memory sticks.
These should be PC133 specification. SDIMM memory has 168 pins
(connections) and comes in various flavours such as 32mb, 64mb, 128, 256
and then it can also be ECC (error correcting) and registered. For most
systems standard SDIMM will be fine. Intel has additional information on
their web site about compatible memory with their boards. |
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| Here is another view of the cpu socket. Note the little lever on
the left (my screwdriver is pointing at it). Also note that this
side of the socket has the orientation (of the chip) guides. More
on that later. |
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| Just for clarity we wanted to point out the AGP socket (slot). It is
markedly different from the PCI slots. |
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