ECS A885GM-M2, Manual

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Introducing the Motherboard
Feature
Processor
HyperTransport
TM
Technology is a point-to-point link between two devices, it
enables integrated circuits to exchange information at much higher speeds than
currently available interconnect technologies.
• supports socket AM3 for AMD Six-Core Phenom TM II/ PhenomII TM X4/
Phenom TM / Athlon TM II/ Sempron TM processors.
• Supports HyperTransport
TM
(HT) 3.0 interface speeds
This motherboard uses a socket AM3 that carries the following features:
AMD SB850
(SB)
AMD 880G
(NB)
• One x4 A-Link Express III interface for connection to
an AMD Southbridge. The A-Link Express III is a propri-
etary interface developed by AMD basing on the PCI
Express technology, with additional Northbridge-
Southbridge messaging functionalities. It supports the
PCIe Gen 2 transfer rate of 5 GT/s, and is backward
compatible with the A-Link Express II interface.
• Supports one PCI-Express x16 Gen2 graphics link
• Supports two PCI-Express x1 slots
• Fully supports ACPI states S1, S3, S4 and S5
• Supports ATI Radeon HD4250 Graphics*.
• Supports 16-bit up/down HyperTransport (HT) 3.0 in-
terface up to 4.4 GT/s.
The AMD 880G Northbridge (NB) and AMD SB850 Southbridge (SB) chipsets
are based on an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and
performance.
Chipset
Memory
• Supports DDR3 1333/1066 SDRAM with Dual-channel architecture
• Accommodates two unbuffered DIMMs
• Up to 4GB per DIMM with maximum memory size up to 8 GB
• 128MB DDR3 Sideport memory onboard
• Compliant with PCI 2.2 specification at 33 MHz
• Supports five Serial ATA devices which speeds up to
6.0 Gb/s
• Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to
fourteen USB 2.0 ports
• Supports integrated RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID
10 functionality across all 5 ports (RAID 10 requires
use of 4 or more SATA ports, and RAID 5 requires use
of 3 or more SATA ports)