Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS X79R-AX Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing X79R-AX (Deluxe) motherboard. This motherboard is a
high performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA2011
®
socket for Intel
performance. Combined with ECS unique M.I.B
simple, fast and safe O.C platform for high-end desktop and gaming market.
This motherboard is based on Intel
platform solution. X79 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-
Threading peripheral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device
controller. High resolution graphics via four PCIe x16 slots (the second and the
forth runs at x8 mode), intended for Graphic Interface, is fully compliant to the
PCI Express Base Specification revision 3.0. It supporting 4-Way NVIDIA
TM
SLI and AMD CrossfireX
cards with identical GPU running at PCIe Gen 3 speed. In additon, it provides two
PCI Express x1 rev 2.0 slots for extending usage. This motherboard supports up to
64 GB of system memory with four channel DDR3 2400(OC)/2133(OC)/
1866(OC)/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules, and Intel XMP technology
up to 2400. It also implements an EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller Interface)
compliant interface that provides ten USB 2.0 ports (six USB 2.0 ports at the back
panel and two USB 2.0 headers support additional four USB 2.0 ports). The gray
USB 2.0 header provides EZ charger technology, please refer to chapter 2 parts of
Front Panel USB 2.0 headers to check the detail information. In addition, this
motherboard implements extra two USB 3.0 chips which provides four USB 3.0
2
ports* at rear I/O, and one USB 3.0 Front header supports two USB 3.0 ports.
This motherboard implements extra Asmedia ASM1061 SATA
which provide two EXSATA 6Gb/s onboard and two eSATA 6Gb/s ports, this
motherboard delivers the highest data transfer rate to fulfill the most speed-
demanding usage. In addition, this motherboard supports six SATA 6Gb/s ports, and
four SATA 3Gb/s ports with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 configuration.
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including one PS/2 mouse and keyboard combo connector, one CLR_CMOS
button, two eSATA 6Gb/s ports, two gigabit LAN ports, six USB 2.0 ports, four
USB 3.0 ports, one Buletooth Dongle, one Wireless LAN Dongle, one optical
SPDIFO port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 8-ch line-out.
*1. ECS M.I.B X stands for extreme O.C BIOS interface. Please refer to
chapter 3 for detailed setup information.
*2. The USB 3.0 connectors are optimized for SuperSpeed USB 3.0
devices, also are fully backwards-compatible with Hi-Speed USB 2.0
devices.
*3. Only the X79R-AX has these chips. There are not CLR_CMOS button,
eSATA 6Gb/s ports, Wireless LAN Dongle, Bluetooth Dongle and only one
LAN port in the rear panel of X79R-AX Deluxe.
Sandy Bridge-E processor to reach the optimum system
®
TM technology that allows you to install four graphic
Introducing the Motherboard
1 BIOS interface, it makes a
X*
X79 Express Chipset for best desktop
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3
chips,
6Gb/s*
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