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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the HDC-I motherboard. This is a high performance, en-
hanced function motherboard with onboard FT1 CPU for high-end business or per-
sonal desktop markets.
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including one DVI port, one eSATA port, one VGA port, six USB 2.0 ports, two USB
3.0 ports, one Bluetooth, one HDMI port, one LAN port, one SPDIFO port and
audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
This motherboard is based on AMD Hudson M1 FCH Chipset for best desktop
platform solution. Hudson M1 FCH is a single-chip, highly integrated, high perfor-
mance. This motherboard supports up to 8GB of system memory with single channel
DDR3 1066/800 MHz. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express X16 slot,
intended for Graphics Interface. One Mini PCI Express X1 slot is also supported. It
implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides ten USB 2.0 ports (six USB
2.0 ports at the rear panenl and two USB 2.0 headers supporting additional four USB
2.0 ports). It also implements extra USB 3.0 chip which provides two USB 3.0 ports
at the rear I/O with blue connectors. This motherboard integrates a Serial ATA host
controller, supporting four SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 6.0 Gb/s
each.