Northern Micro Spirit P9X79-AS, User Manual

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Rear Panel Connectors
Rear Panel Connectors
PS/2 mouse port
1.
Optical S/PDIF Out port 7.
USB 2.0 ports 5 and 6 2. External SATA port 8.
USB 2.0 ports 3 and 4 3.
External SATA port 9.
LAN RJ45 port 4. USB 2.0 ports 1 and 2 10.
PS/2 keyboard port 5.
USB 3.0 ports 1 and 2 11.
USB 2.0 ports 7 and 8 6.
Audio I/O ports 12.
USB 3.0
USB 3.0 is supported with two USB 3.0 ports on the back panel. USB 3.0 ports are backward compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 devices. The USB 3.0
ports are SuperSpeed, high-speed, full-speed, and low-speed capable. USB 3.0 supp ort requires both an operating system and drivers that fully support
USB 3.0 transfer rates.
USB 2.0
There are 14 USB 2.0 ports (eight ports routed to back panel connectors (black) and six ports routed to three onboard headers (black)). The USB 2.0 ports
are high-speed, full-speed, and low-speed capable. USB 2.0 support requires both an operating system and drivers that fully support USB 2.0 transfer
rates.
Serial ATA
The board provides two 6.0 Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA) channels (blue connectors) and four 3.0 Gb/s SATA channe ls (black conne ctors).
The four 3.0 Gb/s SATA channels support the following RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives) levels:
RAID 0 - data striping
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RAID 1 - data mirroring
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RAID 0+1 (or RAID 10) - data striping and data mirroring
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RAID 5 - distributed parity
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See informat ion on configuring your system for RAID using Intel® Rapid Storage Techno logy (Intel® RST).
Audio Subsystem
The onboard audio subsystem consists of the following component s:
Intel X79 Express Chipset
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RealTek ALC892 codec
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The subsystem has the following headers and connectors:
Six back panel analog audio connectors
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High Definition (HD) Audio front panel header that provides mic in and line out signals for front panel audio conne ctors
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The audio subsy stem supports the following features:
Advanced jack detection for the back panel analog audio jacks that enables the audio codec to recognize the device that is connected to an audio
port. The front panel audio jacks are capable of retasking accordin g to the user’s definition, or can be automatically switched depending on the
recognized device type.
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Independent multi-streami ng 6-channel (5.1) audio (using the back panel audio connector s) and 2-channel audio (using the Intel High Definition
Audio front panel header).
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