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Motherboard User’s Guide
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard is a high performance, enhanced function motherboard that sup-
ports socket FM1 for AMD A series processor for high-end business or personal
desktop markets.
This motherboard is based on AMD A55 (Hudson D2) express chipset for best
desktop platform. A55 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-
Transport peripheral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device con-
troller. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies of
1866
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/1600/1333. It supports two DDR3 sockets with maximum memory size of
32 GB. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express x16 slot. It also supports one
PCI slot which is PCI 2.3 compliant. In addition, one PCI Express x1 slot is
supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification, Revision 1.1. It
integrats USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to eight USB 2.0 functional ports (4
USB 2.0 ports and 2 USB 2.0 headers support additional 4 USB 2.0 ports). This
motherboard integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting four SATA ports
with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each. It provides AMD SATA RAID
configuration with RAID 0, 1 and 10 modes supported.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, one D-sub (VGA) port, four USB 2.0 ports, one LAN port,
three audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6-ch line-out. This motherboard is
designed in a Micro ATX form factor using a four-layer printed circuit board and
measures 230 mm x 180 mm.
Note
: This board supports CPU up to 100W TDP only.
Key Features
The key features of this motherboard include:
Socket-FM1 Processor Support
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Supports socket FM1 for AMD A series processor
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Supports HyperTransport
TM
(HT) 3.0 interface Speeds
HyperTransport
TM
technology is a point-to-point link between two devices, it
enables integrated circuits to exchange information at much higher speeds than
currently available interconnect technologies.
Note
:
*1.Due to the limitation of chipset spec, it supports up to 1866 MHz for
motherboard with a single DIMM per channel.