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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the H61H2-M13 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1155
socket for the latest Intel
®
Core
TM
Family/Pentium
®
/Celeron
®
processors
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for high-
end business or personal desktop markets.
This motherboard is based on Intel
®
H61 Chipset for best desktop platform solution.
H61 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-Threading periph-
eral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device controller. This
motherboard supports up to 16 GB of system memory with dual channel DDR3
1600
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/1333/1066 SDRAM. One PCI is supported, fully compliant with PCI rev 2.2
specification at 33MHz. High resolution graphics via PCI Express x16 slot, intended
for Graphics Interface. In addition, one PCI Express slot x1 is supported. It imple-
ments an EHCI (Enhanced 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 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 RJ45 LAN port,
four USB 2.0 ports, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
In addition, this motherboard supports four SATA 3.0 Gb/s connectors for expansion.
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When accommodating Intel 3
rd
Generation CPU, the PCI Express 16X
slot can run at Gen3 speed, which accelerates on 32GB/s rate that effectively
delivers double of PCI Express Gen2 speed.
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The 3rd Generation CPU required.