Intel Essential Series Motherboard

Intel® Desktop Board DG41RQ

Overview

Intel® Desktop Board DG41RQ supporting Intel® Core™2 Quad and Intel® Core™2 Duo processors.
The board is built in microATX form factor that offers legacy-to-premium features to meet more than just the bare necessities. It offers Intel® High Definition Audio, integrated 10/100/1000 Mb/s network connection & expansion capabilities such as PCIe*x16 to enrich users’ multimedia creation experience.
The Intel® Desktop Board DG41RQ is Microsoft Windows Vista* Basic WHQL certified.


Features and benefits


Form factor
microATX (9.60 inches by 8.60 inches)


Processor
Support for an Intel® Core™2 Quad processor (95 W TDP) in an LGA775 socket
Support for an Intel® Core™2 Duo processor in an LGA775 socket
Support for an Intel® Pentium® processor in an LGA775 socket
Support for an Intel® Celeron® processor in an LGA775 socket
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Memory
Two 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
Support for DDR2 800 or DDR2 667 MHz DIMMs
Support for up to 8 GBπ of system memory.


Chipset
Intel® G41 Chipset


Audio
Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem in the following configuration:
6-channel (5.1) audio subsystem using the Realtek* ALC662 audio codec.


Video
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X4500 integrated graphics subsystem.


I/O control

Legacy I/O controller for serial header, parallel header and PS/2* ports.


LAN support

Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Realtek* RTL 8111D.


Peripheral interfaces
8 USB 2.0 ports
One serial port header
One parallel port header
Four Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s interfaces
One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33,66,100 support
PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports.


Expansion capabilities

One PCI Express* x16 bus add-in card connector
Two PCI Conventional* bus connectors.