GA-8I945GMH-RH (rev. 1.x)

The GA-8I945GMH-RH is the world's first motherboard to attain the new Intel^® Viiv™ Technology platform verification.GA-8I945GMH-RH motherboard are skillfully designed for entertainment platforms and digital home. The new motherboard relies on the powerful Intel^® GMA 950 graphics engine for high-quality digital video without a noisy plug-in VGA card.
Optimized for Intel^® Pentium^® D Dual Core processors, the GA-8I945GMH-RH provides multi-core functionality. The latest in high-speed connectivity is provided by Intel^® PRO/1000 PL Gigabit Ethernet and the board also includes onboard Firewire and USB 2.0 connectivity for digital audio and video device connectivity. For the audio enthusiast, the GA-8I945GMH-RH produces heart-pounding multi-channel sound, advanced voice and communication input, and multi-streaming capabilities through Intel^® High Definition Audio technologies. GA-8I945GMH-RH brings you the ultimate entertainment experience to the Digital Home.

GIGABYTE 945 Series motherboard support for Intel® Viiv™ Technology, it means you will be easy access to on-demand movies, music, games and photos on your TV；A range of verified entertainment services and big-name digital content；Instant on/off (after initial boot, when activated) for immediate enjoyment of your digital media；Dual-core processor power and supports up to 7.1 channel surround sound；The ability to record, pause and rewind live TV；A range of shapes and sizes to fit your home and your life.

The Intel 945G Express Chipset delivers outstanding system performance through high-bandwidth interfaces such as dual-channel DDR2 memory, 1066/800 MHz system bus, PCI Express* x16 graphics port and PCI Express x1 I/O ports, Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 connectivity. The Intel 945G Express Chipset also includes support for Intel^® Active Management Technology, the next generation of remote client network management.

Enjoy the extraordinary CPU power from the latest dual-core CPU. The advanced processing technology contains two physical CPU cores with individually dedicated L2 Caches to satisfy the rising demand for more powerful processing capability.

The Intel^® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 combines faster graphics processing and increased memory bandwidth to deliver richer visual quality and colors without the need for additional discrete graphics cards.

SATA 3Gb/s doubles bus bandwidth from 1.5Gb/s to 3Gb/s. SATA 3Gb/s facilitates bandwidth aggregation for multiple devices, enabling max through put as well as, higher cache through put performance in single drive configurations.

Get a jump in memory performance with the advanced technology of DDR2! Through GIGABTYE engineering, we had overcome the chipset limitations of DDR2 667/533 delivering superior performance for the most demanding applications.

Revolutionary PCI Express interface provides scalable bandwidth for multi-purpose usage. PCI-E x16 interface doubles the bandwidth of graphics interface of previous generation thus delivering the utmost gaming experience. PCI-E x1interface provides twice the bandwidth of PCI interface up to 250MB/s for new generation I/O peripheral devices.

The Gigabit network interface delivers a high speed LAN connection with data transfer rate up to 1000Mb/s, providing new generation connectivity for the broadband era. Gigabit LAN is ideally for seamless internet connection such as streaming audio and video contents

This motherboard with IEEE1394 FireWire interface from Texas Instruments (TI). With the transfer speed up to 400Mb/s, the new generation IEEE1394 interface further enhances PC connectivity with consumer electronics audio/video.

Intel^® High Definition Audio enables 8 channel premium digital sound in the PC for an immersive surround sound experience. In addition, Intel HD Audio delivers multiple audio channels in your PC so you can listen to two different streams simultaneously in two separate rooms