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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the
A55F-M2
motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket
for
FM1 for
AMD A series processor for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including one PS/2 mouse
and keyboard combo connector, one HDMI port (DVI port optional), one D-sub
(VGA) port, eight USB 2.0 ports, one LAN port, three audio jacks for microphone,
line-in and 6-ch line-out.
The motherboard is based on AMD A55 (Hudson D2) express chipset for best desk-
top platform. A55 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-
Transport peripheral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device control-
ler
.
The memory controller supports DDR3 memory
DIMM frequencies of 1866
*
1
/
1600/1333.
It supports two DDR3 slots with maximum memory size of 32
*
2
GB.
One PCI Express x16 slots, intended for Graphics Interface, are fully compliant to
the PCI Express Gen2 (version 2.0). In addition, two PCI Express x1 slots and one
PCI slot are supported.
It integrates USB 2.0, supporting up to twelve USB 2.0 ports (eight USB 2.0 ports
and two USB 2.0 headers support additional four USB 2.0 ports).
The gray USB 2.0
header provides EZ charger technology, please refer to chapter 2 parts of Front
Panel USB 2.0 headers to check the detail information. This motherboard integrates
a Serial ATA host controller, supporting six SATA ports with maximum transfer rate
up to 3Gb/s each.
*
1.Due to the limitation of chipset spec, it supports up to 1866 MHz for
motherboard with a single DIMM per channel.
*
2.Please refer to Memory QVL for more information.
