Features - ECS A890GXM-A Manual

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Feature
Processor
This motherboard uses a socket AM3 that carries the following features:
• Accommodates
(socket AM3)
• Supports HyperTransport
HyperTransport
enables integrated circuits to exchange information at much higher speeds than
currently available interconnect technologies.
Chipset
The AMD 890GX Northbridge (NB) and SB850 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are
based on an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and
performance.
AMD 890GX
(NB)
SB850 (SB)
Memory
• Supports DDR3
channel architecture
• Accommodates four unbuffered DIMMs
• Up to 8 GB per DIMM with maximum memory size up to 32 GB
AMD Phenom TM II/Athlon
TM
(HT) 3.0 interface speeds
TM
Technology is a point-to-point link between two devices, it
• One x4 A-Link Express III interface for connection to
an AMD Southbridge. The A-Link Express III is a propri-
etary interface developed by AMD basing on the PCI
Express technology, with additional Northbridge-
Southbridge messaging functionalities. It supports the
PCIe Gen 2 transfer rate of 5 GT/s, and is backward
compatible with the A-Link Express II interface.
• Supports two x16 PCI-Express Gen2 graphics link
• Fully supports ACPI states S1, S3, S4 and S5
• Supports ATI HyperMemory*.
Note: Includes dedicated and shared memory. The amount
of HyperMemory available is determined by various
factors. For details, please consult your AMD CSS
representative.
• Supports 16-bit up/down HyperTransport (HT) 3.0 in-
terface up to 4.8 GT/s.
• Compliant with PCI 2.3 specification at 33 MHz
• Two-lane PCI Express® (PCIe®) 2.0 interface, support-
ing up to two general purpose devices. Supported
configurations include: § 1x2 § 2x1
• Supports five Serial ATA devices which speeds up to
6 Gb/s
• Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to
fourteen USB 2.0 ports
• Supports integrated RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID
10 functionality across all 5 ports (RAID 10 requires
use of 4 or more SATA ports, and RAID 5 requires use
of 3 or more SATA ports)
1600 (OC)/1333/1066/800
Introducing the Motherboard
TM II/Sempron TM processors
DDR3 SDRAM with Dual-