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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the IC55H-A motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1156
socket for latest Intel
®
Core
TM
i7/Core
TM
i5/Core
TM
i3 processors for high-end busi-
ness or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, one serial port, eight USB ports, one
LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
This motherboard is based on Intel
®
H55 Express Chipset for best desktop platform
solution. H55 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 1800
(OC)/1600/1333/1066 MHz* . Two PCI slots are 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. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides
twelve USB 2.0 ports (eight USB ports and two USB 2.0 headers support additional
four USB ports).
*Due to the DRAM maximum size is 2GB at present, the memory
maximum size we have tested is 8GB