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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the A750GM-M motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket AM3 for AMD
Phenom
TM II processor/Athlon II/Sempron processors for high-end business or per-
sonal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the AMD 740G (RS740) Northbridge (NB) and SB700
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport
TM
1.0 in-
terface . It supports two DDR3 slots with maximum memory size of 8 GB. One PCI
Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI
Express Base Specification Revision 1.1.
The SB700 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are 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 integrates USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to
eight functional ports (four USB ports and two USB 2.0 headers support additional
four USB ports). One onboard IDE connector supports two IDE devices in Ultra ATA
133/100/66/33 modes. The Southbridge 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 VGA port, one optional DVI port, four USB ports, one
LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.