Basic motherboards

Kontron has extended its family of basic motherboards with two variants based on the 45 nm Intel Core 3 Quad processor — the KTG41/ATX ATX and the KTG41/ATXU Micro-ATX.

The boards feature the Intel graphics and memory controller hub as well as the I/O controller hub (Intel ICH7R) and support Intel processors up to the 45 nm Intel Core2 Quad processor Q9650 with 3.0 GHz, 12 MB L3 cache and a FSB of up to 1333 MHz.

For data processing intensive applications, the boards support up to 8 GB of dual channel DDR3 SDRAM with one DIMM module per channel.

Both boards feature DirectX 10 graphics with shader model 4.0 for DVI, SDVO and DisplayPort via the integrated graphics accelerator 4500 (Intel GMA 4500).

If more graphics performance is needed, the 16 lane PCI Express port offers support for an external high-end graphics card.

Both boards offer 2 x gigabit ethernet, one PCI Express x 4 slot, eight x USB 2.0 ports and two serial ports.

Compared with the Micro-ATX version, which offers two PCI connectors, the slightly larger ATX motherboard offers five connectors with bus master capabilities. Data storage media are connected via four SATA 3 GB interfaces with RAID 0/1/10 functionality for enhanced transfer rates and/or data security.