Features - ECS A885GM-A2 Manual

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Feature
Processor
This motherboard uses a socket AM3 that carries the following features:
• supports socket AM3 for AMD Six-Core Phenom
Phenom
• Supports HyperTransport
HyperTransport
enables integrated circuits to exchange information at much higher speeds than
currently available interconnect technologies.
Chipset
The AMD 880G Northbridge (NB) and AMD SB850 Southbridge (SB) chipsets
are based on an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and
performance.
AMD 880G
(NB)
AMD SB850
(SB)
Memory
• Supports DDR3 1600 (O.C) /1333/1066 SDRAM with Dual-channel ar-
chitecture
• Accommodates four unbuffered DIMMs
• Up to 4GB per DIMM with maximum memory size up to 16 GB.
TM / Athlon TM II/ Sempron TM processors.
TM
(HT) 3.0 interface speeds
TM
Technology is a point-to-point link between two devices, it
• One x4 A-Link Express III interface for connection to
an AMD Southbridge. The A-Link Express III is a propri-
etary interface developed by AMD basing on the PCI
Express technology, with additional Northbridge-
Southbridge messaging functionalities. It supports the
PCIe Gen 2 transfer rate of 5 GT/s, and is backward
compatible with the A-Link Express II interface.
• Supports one PCI-Express x16 Gen2 graphics link
• Supports one PCI-Express x4 slot(the second PCI-e
x16 slot)
• Supports two PCI-Express x1 slots
• Fully supports ACPI states S1, S3, S4 and S5
• Supports ATI Radeon HD4250 Graphics*.
• Supports 16-bit up/down HyperTransport (HT) 3.0 in-
terface up to 4.4 GT/s.
• Compliant with PCI 2.3 specification at 33 MHz
• Supports five Serial ATA devices which speeds up to
6.0 Gb/s
• Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to
twelve USB 2.0 ports
• Supports integrated RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID
10 functionality across all 5 ports (RAID 10 requires
use of 4 or more SATA ports, and RAID 5 requires use
of 3 or more SATA ports)
Introducing the Motherboard
TM II/ PhenomII TM X4/