Feature - ECS A880GM-AD3 Manual

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Feature

Processor
This motherboard uses a socket AM3 that carries the following features:
• Accommodates AM3 Phenom
• Supports HyperTransport
• Support transfer rate up to 5200 mega-transfers per second
HyperTransport
enables integrated circuits to exchange information at much higher speeds than
currently available interconnect technologies.
This board supports CPU up to 95W TDP only; you can refer to AMD
website to check your CPU.
Chipset
The AMD 880G Northbridge (NB) and SB710 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are
based on an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and
performance.
AMD 880G
(NB)
SB710
(SB)
Memory
• Supports DDR3 1600 (OC)/1333/1066/800 DDR3 SDRAM with Dual-
channel architecture
• Accommodates four unbuffered DIMMs
• 4 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM sockets support up to 32 GB*
* Due to the DRAM maximum size is 4GB at present, the memory maxi-
mum size we have tested is 16GB
TM II/Athlon
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 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
3.0 Gb/s
• Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to
twelve USB 2.0 ports
• Integrated IDE controller supports Ultra ATA 133/100/
66 modes
• Supports integrated RAID0, RAID1, and RAID 10 (re-
quires use of 4 or more SATA ports) functionalities
across all 5 ports
Introducing the Motherboard
TM II/ Sempron TM processors