Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS A785GM-M Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the A785GM-M motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket for AMD
TM
Phenom II processor (socket AM3) for high-end business or personal desktop
markets.
The motherboard incorporates the AMD 785G Northbridge (NB) and SB710
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport TM 3.0 in-
terface. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies of
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1333/1066. It supports four DDR3 slots with maximum memory size of 32 GB . One
PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, are fully compliant to the PCI
Express Gen2 (version 2.0). In addition, two PCI Express x1 slots are supported.
The SB710 Southbridge supports one PCI slot which is PCI v2.3 compliant. It
integrates USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to twelve functional ports (six USB ports
and three USB 2.0 headers support additional six 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 six SATA ports with
maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each. It provides AMD SATA RAID configura-
tion with RAID 0, 1 and 10 modes supported.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including one DVI port,
one VGA port, one HDMI port, one 1394A port, two eSATA ports, six USB ports,
one optical SPDIFO port, one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and
8-ch line-out.
Currently, the memory maximum size we have tested is 16 GB.
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Introducing the Motherboard