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1.4 Accelerated Processing Unit (APU)
This motherboard comes with an FM2 socket designed for AMD
®
A-series accelerated
processors with AMD
®
Radeon™ HD 7000 series graphics.
Ensure that you use a APU designed for the FM2 socket. The APU fits in only one correct
orientation. DO NOT force the APU into the socket to prevent bending the pins and
damaging the APU!
1.3.4 Layout contents
Connectors/Jumpers/Slots/LED Page
1. Keyboard power (3-pin KB_USBPWB) 1-21
2. ATX power connectors (24-pin EATXPWR, 4-pin ATX12V) 1-24
3. AMD FM2 socket 1-7
4. CPU fan connector (4-pin CPU_FAN) and Chassis fan connector (3-pin CHA_FAN) 1-23
5. DDR3 DIMM slots 1-11
6. SATA 3.0Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA3G_1~6) 1-25
7. System panel connector (10-1 pin F_PANEL) 1-26
8. Speaker connector (4-pin SPEAKER) 1-26
9. Clear RTC RAM (3-pin CLRTC) 1-20
10. USB 2.0 connectors (10-1 pin USB56, USB34) 1-28
11. USB device wake-up (3-pin USBPWF) 1-21
12. Digital audio connector (4-1 pin SPDIF_OUT) 1-27
13. Front panel audio connector (10-1 pin AAFP) 1-27
14. Standby power LED (SB_PWR) 1-4
A55M-A/USB3
A55M-A/USB3 CPU socket FM2
ASUS A55M-A Series
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