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Motherboard User’s Guide
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard is a high performance, enhanced function motherboard that sup-
ports socket AM3 for AMD Phenom
TM
II processor/Athlon II/Sempron proces-
sors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the AMD 740G (RS740) Northbridge (NB) and
SB700 Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport
TM
1.0 interface
.
It supports two DDR3 slots with maximum memory size of 8 GB.
One PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the
PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.1.
The SB700 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. In
addition, one PCI Express x1 slot is supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express
Base Specification, Revision 1.1. It integrates USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to
eight functional ports (four USB ports and two USB 2.0 headers support addi-
tional four USB ports). 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 four SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/
s each. It provides AMD SATA RAID configuration with RAID 0, 1 and 10 modes
supported.
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 optional DVI port, four USB ports, one
LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
This motherboard is a Micro ATX size motherboard and has power connectors for
an ATX power supply.
Key Features
The key features of this motherboard include:
Socket-AM2 Processor Support
•
Supports AM3 for AMD Phenom
TM
II processor/Athlon II/Sempron
processors
