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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the AMD690GM-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a
high performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports Socket AM2 AMD
Athlon
™ 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon ™ 64/Sempron ™ CPUs for high-end business or
personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the AMD 690G Northbridge (NB) and SB600
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport (HT) in-
terface speeds up to 2000 MT/s data rate. It supports two or four DDR2 slots with
maximum memory size of 16 GB/32 GB (32 GB with four DIMMs only). One PCI
Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI
Express Base Specification revision 1.1a.
The motherboard with SB600 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI 2.3
compliant. It integrates USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to ten functional ports (4
USB ports and 3 USB 2.0 headers support additional 6 USB ports). One onboard IDE
connector supports two IDE devices in Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 mode. The
Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting four SATA ports with
maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each.
This motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, LPT (optional), one VGA port, one
DVI port, four USB ports, one optional LAN port, and audio jacks for microphone,
line-in and 6/8-channel (optional) line-out.