Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS A55F-M2 Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the A55F-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket
AMD A series processor for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard is based on AMD A55 (Hudson D2) express chipset for best desk-
top platform. A55 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-
Transport peripheral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device control-
ler. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory
1600/1333. It supports two DDR3 slots with maximum memory size of 16 GB. One
PCI Express x16 slots, intended for Graphics Interface, are fully compliant to the
PCI Express Gen2 (version 2.0). In addition, two PCI Express x1 slots and one PCI
slot are supported.
It integrates USB 2.0, supporting up to twelve USB 2.0 ports (eight USB 2.0 ports
and two USB 2.0 headers support additional four USB 2.0 ports). The gray USB 2.0
header provides EZ charger technology, please refer to chapter 2 parts of Front
Panel USB 2.0 headers to check the detail information. This motherboard integrates
a Serial ATA host controller, supporting six SATA ports with maximum transfer rate
up to 3.0 Gb/s each.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including one PS/2 mouse
and keyboard combo connector, one HDMI port (DVI port optional), one D-sub
(VGA) port, eight USB 2.0 ports, one LAN port, three audio jacks for microphone,
line-in and 6-ch line-out.
*Due to the limitation of chipset spec, it supports up to 1866 MHz for
motherboard with a single DIMM per channel.
Introducing the Motherboard
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DIMM frequencies of 1866*/
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