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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the H57H-M motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1156
socket for Intel
®
Lynnfield/Clarkdale processors for high-end business or personal
desktop markets.
This motherboard is based on Intel
®
H57 Express Chipset for best desktop platform
solution.
H57 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-Threading
peripheral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device controller. This
motherboard supports up to 16 GB
*1
of system memory with
dual channel DDR3
1333/1066
*2
SDRAM
. One PCI slot is supported, fully compliant with PCI rev 2.3
specification at 33MHz. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express slot, intended
for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification
revision 2.0. One PCI Express x4 slot is supported, fully compliant to the PCI
Express Base Specification revision 2.0. In addition, one PCI Express x1 slot is
support. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides fourteen USB 2.0
ports (eight USB ports and three USB 2.0 headers support additional six USB ports).
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including one VGA port, one DVI port, one HDMI port, one ESATA port, two LAN
ports, eight USB ports, one optical SPDIFO port and audio jacks for microphone,
line-in and 8-ch line-out.
In addition, this motherboard comes with an LED for debug, a power on button and a
reset button. The processor can be overclocked when
CPU Over-clocking Func.
is set
to
Enabled
in M.I.B.II (MB Intelligent BIOSII).
*1. Due to the DRAM maximum size (2 GB per dimm) at present, the
memory maximum size we have tested is 8 GB per dimm.
*2. Due to the limitation of AMD CPU spec, please refer to Memory QVL
for more information.
