Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction; Pakage Contents - ECS A970M-A DELUXE Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the A970M-A DELUXE motherboard. This motherboard is a
high performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket for AMD
TM
Phenom and later desktop processors (socket AM3+) for high-end business or per-
sonal desktop markets.
The motherboard is based on AMD 970 Northbridge (NB) and SB950 Southbridge (SB)
chipsets. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory
2133(OC)/1866/1600/1333.
of 64 GB. Two PCI Express x16 slots (the PCIEX16_T slot runs at x4 mode), intended for
Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Gen2 (version 2.0). In addi-
tion, two PCI Express x1 slots are supported.
The SB950 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI v2.2 compliant. It inte-
grates USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to fourteen USB 2.0 ports (eight USB 2.0 ports
at the rear panel and three USB 2.0 headers support additional six USB 2.0 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. The Southbridge integrates a Serial
ATA host controller, supporting five SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to
6Gb/s each, and one eSATA3 6Gb/s connector at the rear panel.
In addition, the motherboard assembles extra USB3.0 chip, which supports two USB
3.0 ports at the rear panel with high speed of 5Gb/s.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard combo connector, one eSATA port, eight USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports,
one LAN port, one optical SPDIF out port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and
8-ch line-out.
Package Contents
Your motherboard package ships with the following items:
 A970M-A DELUXE Motherboard

Quick Installation Guide

User Manual

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.
A970M-A DELUXE USER MANUAL
It supports four DDR3 slots with maximum memory size
DIMM frequencies of
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