Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction; Pakage Contents - ECS A78F2P-M2 User Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the A78F2P-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket FM2+ 906P
Kaveri/FM2 904P Richland for AMD processors for high-end business or personal
desktop markets.
The motherboard is based on AMD A78 Bolton express chipset for best desktop
platform. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory
2133MHz (FM2+) *1 /1866MHz (FM2)
memory size of 32 GB. One PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is
fully compliant to the PCI Express Gen3 (version 3.0)
x1 slots and one v2.3 PCI slot are supported.
It integrates USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 interface, supporting up to ten USB 2.0 ports (six
USB 2.0 ports at the rear panel and two USB 2.0 headers support additional four USB
2.0 ports) and four USB 3.0 ports (two USB 3.0 ports at the rear panel and one USB 3.0
header supports additional two USB 3.0 ports). The gray USB 2.0 header provides EZ
charger technology, please refer to Front Panel USB 2.0 headers of chapter 2 for
more details. This motherboard integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting
six SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 6Gb/s each.
There is an full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and keyboard
combo connectors, one D-sub (VGA) port, one DVI port, one HDMI port (Co-lay with
DP port), six USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, one LAN port, three audio jacks for
microphone, line-in and 6-ch line-out.
*1. Due to the limitation of chipset spec, it supports up to 2133/1866 MHz,
1.5V memory with a single DIMM per channel.
*2. FM2+ APU supports PCI Express Gen3, FM2 APU supports PCI Express Gen2.
Package Contents
Your motherboard package ships with the following items:
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A78F2P-M2 Motherboard

Quick Installation Guide

User Manual
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DVD

I/O Shield

2 SATA 6Gb/s Cables
The package contents above are for reference only, please take the actual
package items as standard.
A78F2P-M2 USER MANUAL
*1 . It supports two DDR3 slots with maximum
*2 . In addition, two PCI Express
DIMM frequencies of
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