Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS B75H2-AM2 User Manual

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Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the B75H2-AM2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1155
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socket for 2 /3 Generation Intel Ivy/Sandy Bridge processors for high-end business
or personal desktop markets.
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This motherboard is based on Intel B75 Chipset for best desktop platform solution.
B75 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 1600/
1333/1066 SDRAM. Two PCI slots are supported, fully compliant with PCI rev 2.3
specification at 33MHz. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express x16 slot,
intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specifi-
cation revision 3.0. In addition, one PCI Express x1 slot is supported, is fully
compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 2.0 . It also implements
two EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller Interface) Controller compliant interface for
USB 2.0 that provides eight USB 2.0 ports (four USB 2.0 ports at the back panel and
two USB 2.0 headers support additional four USB 2.0 ports) and an XHCI (Extensible
Host Controller Interface) Controller for four USB 3.0 ports (two USB 3.0 ports at
the back panel and one USB 3.0 header supports additional two USB 3.0 ports).
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including PS2 mouse and PS2 keyboard connectors, one VGA1 port, one Serial port
(COM1), two Display ports, one LAN port, four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports,
and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
In addition, this motherboard supports one SATA 6.0Gb/s connector and three SATA
3.0Gb/s connectors.
Introducing the Motherboard