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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the A780GM-A motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket
for AMD Phenom TM
II/Phenom™ processor (socket AM2+)/Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon™ 64/
Sempron™
processors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, one VGA port, one HDMI port, six USB ports, one eSATA
port, one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 8-ch line-out.
The SB700 Southbridge supports three PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. It
integrates USB 2.0 interface. One onboard IDE connector supports two IDE devices
in Ultra ATA 133/100/66/33 modes. The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host
controller, supporting five SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s
each.
The motherboard incorporates the AMD 780G Northbridge (NB) and SB700
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport
TM
3.0 in-
terface . It supports four DDR2 slots with maximum memory size of 8 GB. One PCI
Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI
Express Generation 2.0 (version 2.0).