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4
Introducing the Motherboard
Specifications
*1. Due to the limitation of chipset spec, it supports up to 1866 MHz for
motherboard with a single DIMM per channel.
• AMD A55 (Hudson D2)
• FM1 for AM D A series processors
• Supports CPU up to 100W TDP
• Dual-channel DDR3 memory architecture
• 2 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM sockets support up to 32 GB
• Supports DDR3 DDR3 1866 *
1
/1600/1333 SDRAM
• 1 x PCI Express Gen2 x16 slot
• 1 x PCI Express x1 slot
• 1 x PCI slot
• Supported by AMD A55 (Hudson D2)
- 4 x Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s Host Controllers
• VT1705CE 6-Ch High Definition audio CODEC
• Realtek 8111E VL Gigabit LAN
• Realtek 8105E VL 10/100 LAN (optional)
• 1 x D-sub (VGA) port
• 1 x PS/2 keyboard & PS/2 mouse connectors
• 4 x USB 2.0 ports
• 1 x RJ45 LAN port
• 1 x Audio port (Line in, microphone in and line out)
• 1 x 24-pin ATX Power Supply connector
• 1 x 4-pin ATX Power Supply connector
• 1 x 4-pin CPU_FAN connector
• 1 x 3-pin SYS_FAN connector
• 2 x USB 2.0 headers support additional 4 USB 2.0 ports
• 4 x Serial ATA 3Gb/s connectors
• 1 x COM header
• 1 x LPT header
• 1 x Front panel audio header
• 1 x Case Open header
• 1 x Speaker header
• 1 x Clear CMOS header
• 1 x SPDIF out header
• 1 x Front panel USB power select jumper
• 1 x Rear USB/PS2 power select jumper
Chipset
Memory
Expansion
Slots
Storage
Audio
LAN
Rear Panel I/O
Internal I/O
Connectors &
Headers
• AMI BIOS with 16Mb SPI Flash ROM
• Supports Multi-language BIOS Utility
• Supports ECS M.I.B III Utility
CPU
System BIOS
Form Factor • MATX Size, 230mm x 180mm
AP support
• Supports eDLU/eSF/eBLU