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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the
A55F-M3
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 full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and keyboard
connectords, 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.
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 GB. One
PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI
Express Gen2 (version 2.0). In addition, one PCI Express x1 slot and one PCI slot
are supported.
It implements USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to eight USB 2.0 ports (four USB 2.0
ports and two USB 2.0 headers support additional four USB 2.0 ports).
This
motherboard integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting four SATA ports
with maximum transfer rate up to 3 Gb/s each.
*1. Due to the limitation of chipset spec, it supports up to 1866 MHz for
motherboard with a single DIMM per channel.