Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS P67H2-A2 Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing P67H2-A2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced-function motherboard designed to support the LGA1155
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socket for 2 nd Generation Intel Core TM Family & Unlock processors to reach the
optimum system performance. Combined with ECS unique M.I.B III BIOS inter-
face, it makes a simple, fast and safe O.C. platform for high-end business or per-
sonal desktop market.
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This motherboard is based on Intel P67 Chipset for best desktop platform solution.
P67 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-Threading periph-
eral controller, unmatched by any other single-chip device controller. This
motherboard supports up to 16 GB of system memory with dual channel DDR3
2133(OC)/1866(OC)/1600(OC)/1333/1066 SDRAM. It cooperates two of PCIe
16X Gen 2 graphic interface, that allows you install up to two graphic cards with
multiple GPU running at PCIe Gen 2 speed. It provides two PCI rev 3.0 slots and
one PCI Express x1 rev 2.0 slot for extending usage. It implements an EHCI
compliant interface that provides fourteen USB 2.0 ports (eight USB ports and three
USB 2.0 headers support additional six USB ports and one of Front USB 2.0 headers
and USB 3.0 header provide with EZ charger technology, please reference chapter 2
part of Front Panel USB headers to check the detail information). This motherboard
implements extra USB 3.0 host controllers which provide two USB3.0 ports at rear
I/O in blue connector and one USB 3.0 header for two USB3.0 ports.
In addition to P67 chipset, this motherboard implements extra Marvell
88SE9128B1 SATA 6Gb/s chips, which provide two eSATA 6Gb/s ports and four
SATA 6Gb/s ports totally, this motherboard delivers the highest data transfer rate
to fulfill the most speed-demanding usage.
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including one PS/2 keyboard mouse combo connector, one CLR_CMOS button,
two eSATA 6Gb/s ports, two Gigabit LAN ports, eight USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0
ports running at 5 Gb/s, one coaxial SPDIFO port and audio jacks for microphone,
line-in and 8-channel line-out.
In addition, this motherboard comes with a power button and a reset button.
Introducing the Motherboard