Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction; Pakage Contents - ECS A960M-M3 Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the A960M-M3 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket AM3 for AMD
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ness or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the AMD 760G Northbridge (NB) and SB710
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport
face. It supports two DDR3 slots with maximum memory size of 16 GB. One PCI Ex-
press x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express
Base Specification Revision 2.0.
The SB710 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. In addi-
tion, one PCI Express x1 slot is supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express Base
Specification, Revision 1.1. It integrates USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to eight
functional ports (four USB ports and two USB 2.0 headers support additional four
USB ports). One onboard IDE connector supports two IDE devices in Ultra ATA 133/
100/66 modes. The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting
four SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each. It provides AMD SATA
RAID configuration with RAID 0, 1 and 10 modes supported.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, one DVI port (Optional), one D-SUB (VGA) port, four USB ports,
one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
Package Contents
Your motherboard package ships with the following items:
A960M-M3 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.
A960M-M3 USER MANUAL
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