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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the A75F-M motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket FM1 for AMD
Llano processors 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, one DVI port, one D-sub(VGA)
port, four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, one Giga LAN port, one optical
SPDIFO port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 8-ch line-out.
The motherboard is based on AMD A75 (Hudson D3) express chipset for best desk-
top platform. A75 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/
1600/1333 * . It supports four 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 two PCI
slots are supported.
It integrates USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 interface, supporting up to ten USB 2.0 ports(four
USB 2.0 ports and three USB 2.0 headers support additional six USB 2.0 ports) and
four USB 3.0 ports (two USB 3.0 ports at rear panel and one USB 3.0 header supports
additional two USB 3.0 ports). The gray USB 2.0 header provides EZ charger tech-
nology, 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, sup-
porting six SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 6Gb/s each.
*Due to the limitation of AMD CPU spec, please refer to Memory QVL for
more information.
If you want to use the different display output (HDMI, DVI, VGA) at the
same time, you can only choose HDMI+VGA or DVI+VGA.