ECS P67H2-A4, Manual

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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing P67H2-A4 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1155
socket for
2
nd
Generation Intel
®
Core
TM
Family & Unlock processors to reach the
optimum system performance for high-end business or personal desktop market.
This motherboard is based on Intel
®
P67 Chipset for best desktop platform solution.
P67 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
2133(OC)/1800 (OC)/1600/ 1333/1066 SDRAM . It supports two PCIe x16 Gen 2
graphic interface, which allows you install up to two graphic cards with multiple
GPU running at PCIe Gen 2 speed. It provides three PCI Express x1 rev 2.0 slots
for extending usage. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides
twelve USB 2.0 ports (six rear I/O ports and three headers support additional six USB
ports and one of Front USB 2.0 headers provide EZ charger technology, please
reference chapter 2 parts of Front Panel USB headers to check the detail informa-
tion). P67H2-A4 implements extra two optional USB 3.0 chips which provide two
USB3.0 ports* at rear I/O with blue connectors and one USB 3.0 header for two USB
3.0 ports.
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 LAN port, six USB
2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports running at 5 Gb/s (optional), and audio jacks for
microphone, line-in and 8-ch line-out.
*The USB 3.0 connectors are optimized for SuperSpeed USB 3.0 devices,
aslo are fully backwards-compatible with Hi-Speed USB 2.0 devices.
*Please use USB 2.0 ports if you want to boot in DOS mode.