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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the
H61H2-M12
motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1155
socket for
new 2
nd
Generation Intel
Core
TM
i7/i5/i3 series processor/Intel
Pentium
/Celeron
processors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
This motherboard is based on Intel
H61 Express Chipset for best desktop platform
solution. H61 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 of system memory with dual channel DDR3 1333/
1066 SDRAM. High resolution graphics via PCI Express x16 slot, intended for
Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision
2.0. In addition, two PCI Express slots are supported. It implements an EHCI (En-
hanced Host Controller Interface) compliant interface that provides eight USB 2.0
ports (four USB 2.0 ports at the back panel and two USB 2.0 headers support
additional four USB 2.0 ports).
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard connectors, one D_sub (VGA) port, one
LAN port, four USB 2.0 ports, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
In addition, this motherboard supports four SATA 3.0Gb/s connectors for expansion.