ECS P55H-AK, Manual

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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing P55H-AK motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1156
socket for
Intel
®
Unlocked Core-i7 / Core-i5 processors to reach the optimum
system performance. Combined with ECS unique M.I.B X * BIOS interface, it
makes a simple, fast and safe O.C platform for high-end desktop and gaming
market.
P55H-AK is based on Intel P55 Express Chipset and NVIDIA nForce ® 200 PCI
Express switch chip to generate three of PCIe 16X Gen 2 graphic interface,
supporting 3-Way / 2-Way NVIDIA ® SLI TM and ATI CrossfireX TM technology
that allows you install up to three graphic cards with identical GPU running at PCIe
Gen 2 speed. It supports up to 16 GB of system memory with
dual channel DDR3
2400 (OC) / 2200 (OC) / 2000 (OC) / 1800 (OC) / 1600 (OC) / 1333 / 1066
MHz
memory modules. It provides one PCI rev 2.3 slot and two PCI Express x1
rev 2.0 slots for extending usage.
P55H-AK implements extra NEC UPD720200F1 USB3.0 and Marvell 88SE9128
SATA 6Gb/s chips, which provide four USB 3.0 ports (two USB 3.0 ports and one
USB 3.0 header for two frontal USB 3.0 ports), two SATA 6Gb/s and two eSATA
6Gb/s ports with RAID 0, 1 configuration, through PLX PEX 8608 PCIe Gen 2
switch, this motherboard delivers the highest data transfer rate to fulfill the most
speed-demanding usage.
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including one PS/2 mouse and keyboard combo connector, one
CLR_CMOS
button , two eSATA 6Gb/s ports , two gigabit LAN ports, eight USB 2.0 ports, two
USB 3.0 ports running at 5Gb/s , one optical SPDIFO port and audio jacks for
microphone, line-in and 8-ch line-out.
* ECS M.I.B X stands for extreme O.C BIOS interface. Please refer to
chapter 3 for detailed setup information.