Department of Computer and Communication System EngineeringFaculty of Engineering

Universiti Putra Malaysia

ECC3202

Computer Architecture

Assignment 1

Prepared for:

Dr. Mohd Hanif Yaacob

Name : Mohamad Faizal NazarshahSyamimi Izzati Binti Shamsul BahariWan Nadhirah Binti W Abdul Razak

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CPU Socket

LGA1150

LGA 1150 known as Socket H3., is a microprocessor socket used by CPU. The LGA

1150 socket has 1150 protruding pins that make contact with the pads on the bottom side of the

processor. Most motherboards with the LGA 1150 socket support varying video outputs.

Chipset

Intel H81 Chipsets

There is chipset on the motherboard. A chipset is a set of electronic components in an

integrated circuit that manages the data flow between the processor, memory and peripherals.

Chipsets are usually designed to work with a specific family of microprocessors because it

controls communications between the processor and external devices. In determining system

performance, the chipset plays a crucial role. The H81 chipset is very limited compared to other

chipsets because it does not support SLI/Crossfire at all. SLI is a brand name for a multi-GPU

technology for linking two or more video cards together to produce a single output. SLI is an

algorithm of parallel processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power

available for graphics.

Expansion slot

1*PCle 2.0x16, 1*PCle 2.0x1, 1*PCl

Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe or PCI-E) is a serial expansion bus

standard for connecting a computer to one or more peripheral devices. For this motherboard, it

has 2 slots of PCL and 1 slot for PCI. The 1 slot is for PCle 2.0x16 which is specified for graphic

card slot. One slot is PCle 2.0x1 slot. This slot is usually specified for network card. The third

slot is the PCI. This slot is for other expansion cards such as sound cards, 56k modems, and

Ethernet adapters

Form factor

Micro ATX

In computers, the form factor is the size, configuration, or physical arrangement of a

computing device. The term is commonly used in describing the size and/or arrangement of a

device. This motherboard use Micro ATX which is basically standard for motherboard .The

maximum size of a microATX motherboard is 9.6 × 9.6 in (244 × 244 mm), but some microATX

boards can be as small as 6.75 × 6.75 in (171.45 × 171.45 mm).

SATA

2*SATA2,*SATA3

SATA is defined as Serial ATA. It is a computer bus interface that connects host bus

adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. This motherboard

has 2 slots for SATA2 and 2 slots for SATA3. The difference between both SATA is the speed.

The SATA2 native transfer rate of 3.0 Gbit/s that, when accounted for the 8b/10b

encoding scheme, equals to the maximum uncoded transfer rate of 2.4 Gbit/s (300 MB/s).

Meanwhile, for SATA3, the native transfer rate of 6.0 Gbit/s; taking 8b/10b encoding into

account, the maximum uncoded transfer rate is 4.8 Gbit/s (600 MB/s). 

Audio

5.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC662)

Audio port is use to connect the speaker, mike, and MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital

Interface) device of the computer. ALC 662 is a 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec

designed for Windows Vista desktop and mobile PCs. The ALC 662 features three stereo DACs,

two stereo ADCs, and legacy analog input to analog output mixing to provide fully-integrated

audio solution for multimedia PC systems. The ALC 662 also supports a sampling rate of up to

96 kHz. It offers easy connection of PCs to high quality consumer electronic products such as

digital decoders and speakers.

LAN

Realtek GLAN

LAN port is called as Local Area Network of the computer. This port is use to connect

the numbers of node or workstations (PC) to form a local area network of the computer with in

their area. It used in many type of communication media such as the network switch and router.

Rear I/O:

1*PS/2 mouse, 1*PS/2 Keyboard, 1*COM, 1*Parallel port, 1*D-sub, 4*USB 2.0, 2*USB 3.0

Input output module is a a module which an external device can be connected to the PC

or motherboard. Computers can only interact with the world using input and output devices. The

moptherboad has 2 PS/2 connectors. The PS/2 connector is a 6-pin mini-DIN connector used for

connecting some keyboards and mice to a PC compatible computer system. It also has 1 COM

port which is the Communication port.

It has one parallel port. The A parallel port is a type of interface found on computers

(personal and otherwise) for connecting peripherals. It has one D-sub port which is also known

as a VGA port, an analog connection standard. It is called D-sub because of the shape of the port.

The connector is a DE-15 connector with 15 pins in three rows.

The mother board has a total of 6 USB port. The USB 2.0 port can transfer data at a very high

speed which is 480 megabits per second (Mbps), or 60 megabytes per second (MBps). While for

USB 3.0, the maximum bandwidth rate of 5 gigabits per second (Gbps) or 640 megabytes per

second (MBps)

It has one LAN port, for LAN connection which is the internet and it also has 3 Audio

jacks. The 2 audio jacks are Audio In, Audio Out and for Microphone.

CPU Support

Supports New 4th and 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3/Xeon®/Pentium®/Celeron®

Processors

CPU support for H81M-GL supports new 4th and 4th Generation Intel® Core™

i7/i5/i3/Xeon®/Pentium®/Celeron®Processors and its CPU socket type is Socket 1150.

Traditional motherboards are mostly equipped with analog Pulse-width modulation (PWM),

which might bring users annoying problems that the CPU power supply is not stable enough,

hence affects the computing efficiency. Digi power design (digital Pulse-width modulation),

providing CPU Vcore voltage more efficiently and smoothly. In addition, the unique part is, it

provides the most reliable computing CPU power solution, allowing users to enjoy the amazing

performance. Besides that, it uses 4 power phase design which it supplies the overall power to

your CPU through VRM's and MOSFET's. They are important with supplying your CPU with

power, and if one were to die, the entire motherboard would most likely. Besides that, it also

supports Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology.

Memory

2*DDR3 1600

Memory for H81M-GL supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 1.3 / 1.2. It uses

dual channel DDR3/DD3L memory technology. It has 2 slots of memory for DDR3/DD3L

DIMM. It also supports DDR3/DD3L 1600/1333/1066 non-ECC, un-buffered memory. DDR3

memory is the latest generation of memory for computing applications and offers many benefits

over DDR2 including lower latencies, higher speeds, and more. DDR3 is not backward-

compatible with DDR2. For this type of memory, a higher number represents faster memory, or

more bandwidth. Occasionally DDR3 is referred to by a "friendly name" like "DDR3-1066" or

"DDR3-1333". When written this way, the numbers after "DDR3" refer to the data transfer rate

per second (/s) of the components. The maximum capacity of system memory is 16GB. As for

system usage under Windows® 32-bit OS, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the

reservation due to the operating system limitation. As for Windows® 64-bit OS with 64-bit CPU,

there is no such limitation.

Graphics

Supports Intel® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals with processors which are GPU integrated

Graphics for H81M-GL supports Intel® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals : Intel® Quick Sync

Video with AVC, MVC (S3D) and MPEG-2 Full HW Encode1, Intel® InTru™ 3D, Intel® Clear

Video HD Technology, Intel® Insider™, Intel® HD Graphics 4400/4600. It uses pixel shader 5.0

and directX 11.1. The maximum shared memory is up to 1792MB and it supports

D-Sub with maximum resolution up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz. However, Intel® HD Graphics Built-

in Visuals and the VGA outputs can be supported only with processors which are GPU

integrated. Intel® InTru™ 3D is only supported under Windows® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit.

USB

2*USB 3.0, 8*USB 2.0 (4 front, 4 rear)

H81M-GL consists of several inputs which are 1*PS/2 Mouse Port, 1*PS/2 Keyboard

Port, 1*Serial Port: COM1, 1*Parallel Port (ECP/EPP support), 1*D-Sub Port, 4*USB 2.0

Ports, 2*USB 3.0 Ports, and 1*RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED

LED). There are differences between port USB 2.0 and USB 3.0. The transfer rates for USB 2.0

offers transfer rates of 480 Mbps, and USB 3.0 offers transfer rates of 4.8 Gbps — 10 times

faster. As for power consumption, USB 2.0 provides up to 500 mA whereas USB 3.0 provides up

to 900 mA. The USB 3 devices provide more power when needed and conserve power when the

device is connected but idling. Instead of one-way communication, USB 3.0 uses two

unidirectional data paths, one to receive data and the other to transmit while USB 2.0 can only

handle only one direction of data at any time. Instead of that, as for the line in, front speaker and

microphone, it uses HD Audio Jack.