The P45 Express (codenamed Eaglelake) is a mainstream desktop computer

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from

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released in Q2 2008. The first mainboards featuring the P45 chipset were shown at

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2008. The P45 Express chipset supports Intel's

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socket and

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Duo and Quad processors. It is a 65 nm chipset, compared to the earlier generation chipsets ( P35, X38, X48) which were 90 nm.

Features

* 1333/1066/800 MT/s front-side bus (FSB), most motherboard manufacturers claim support up to 1600 MT/s. *

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, 1 ×16 or 2 ×8 in

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configuration. * Dual-channel DDR2 memory ** up to 16 GiB addressable memory; officially up to 800 MHz, most motherboard manufacturers claim support up to 1200 MHz * Dual-channel DDR3 memory ** up to 8 GiB addressable memory; officially up 1066 MHz, most motherboard manufacturers claim support up to 1333 MHz * ICH10 / ICH10R southbridge * Supports 45 nm processors

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