Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction; Pakage Contents - ECS A55F-M4 User Manual

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Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the A55F-M4 motherboard. This motherboard is a high per-
formance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket FM1 for 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 desktop
platform. A55 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-Transport
peripheral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device
memory controller supports DDR3 memory
It supports two DDR3 slots with maximum memory size of 16 GB. One PCI Express x16
slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Gen2 (ver-
sion 2.0). In addition, one PCI Express x1 slot and one PCI slot are supported.
It implements USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to eight USB 2.0 ports (four USB 2.0
ports and two USB 2.0 headers support additional four USB 2.0 ports). This
motherboard integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting four SATA ports with
maximum transfer rate up to 3Gb/s each.
There is an full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and keyboard
connectors, one D-sub (VGA) port, one
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 1866 MHz for
motherboard with a single DIMM per channel.
*2. The HDMI port is optional, please take the actual motherboard as stan-
dard. If you have any questions, please contact the sellers.
Package Contents
Your motherboard package ships with the following items:
A55F-M4 Motherboard
Quick Installation Guide
User Manual
DVD
I/O Shield
2 SATA 3Gb/s Cables
The package contents above are for reference only, please take the actual
package items as standard.
DIMM frequencies of
HDMI(Optional*
A55F-M4 USER MANUAL
controller.
1866* 1 /1600/1333.
2 ), four USB 2.0 ports, one LAN
The
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