Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS A885GM-M2 Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the A885GM-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket AM3 for AMD
TM
Six-Core Phenom II/ PhenomII
sors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the AMD 880G Northbridge (NB) and AMD SB850
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport
terface. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory
1333/1066 *1 . It has two DDR3 slots with maximum memory size of 8GB
Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI
Express Gen2 (version 2.0). In addition, two PCI Express x1 slots are supported.
The AMD SB850 Southbridge supports one PCI slot which is PCI v2.2 compliant. It
integrates USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to fourteen functional ports (eight USB
ports and three USB 2.0 headers support additional six USB ports). The Southbridge
integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting five SATA ports with maximum
transfer rate up to 6.0 Gb/s each.
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, one ESATA port, eight USB
ports, one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
*1. Due to the limitation of AMD CPU spec, please refer to Memory QVL
for more information.
*2. Due to the DRAM maximum size is 4GB at present, the memory
maximum size we have tested is 4X2=8GB.
Introducing the Motherboard
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