Asus MAXIMUS III EXTREME User Manual

P7P55/P7H57/P7H55 series motherboards

installation notices

Intel LGA1156 processor and chipset combination instruction
®
CPU type
Clarkdale CPU
(with integrated GPU)
Chipset
• Integrated GPU enabled
H57/H55
• HDMI/DVI/D-Sub ports enabled*
P55
Discrete VGA card required
* Only available for the motherboards with this function.

Memory configurations

CPU type
Clarkdale CPU
(with integrated GPU)
DRAM modules
supports one module inserted into
1 DIMM ANY slot as Single-channel memory
configuration
supports two modules inserted into
either the blue slots or the black slots
2 DIMMs
as one pair of Dual-channel memory
configuration
supports four modules inserted into both the blue and the black slots as two
4 DIMMs
pairs of Dual-channel memory configuration
Configurations for the PCI Express x16 slots
According to Intel CPU spec, the PCIe x6_2 slot of the H57/H55 chipset will be disabled
®
when using Clarkdale CPU. Refer to below table for details.
Chipset PCI Express x16 slot
PCIe x16_1 (blue)
H57/H55 PCIe x16_2 (white)*
PCIe x16_2 (black)*
PCIe x16_1 (blue)
PCIe x16_2 (white)*
P55
PCIe x16_2 (black)*
PCIe x16_3* (black)
* The color of the PCIe x16_2 slot varies by model.
** The PCIe x16_2 slot can work at maximum x8 link only.
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P7P55/P7H57/P7H55 series motherboards installation notices
Lynnfield CPU
Discrete VGA card required
Discrete VGA card required
Lynnfield CPU
supports one module inserted into
Slot A1 or B1 as Single-channel
memory configuration
supports two modules inserted
into the blue slots (A1 and B1) as
one pair of Dual-channel memory
configuration
CPU type
Clarkdale CPU
Lynnfield CPU
(with integrated GPU)
O
X
O
No limitation
No limitation
No limitation
No limitation
IE543
O
O
O
No limitation
No limitation
No limitation
No limitation