Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS A780GM-M3 Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the A780GM-M3 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket for
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Phenom processor (socket AM2+)/Athlon
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Sempron processors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the AMD RS780 Northbridge (NB) and AMD SB700
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport
terface. The memory controller supports DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies of 1066
(AM2+)/800/667/533/400. It supports two DDR2 slots with maximum memory size
of 16 GB*. One PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully
compliant to the PCI Express
is supported.
The SB700 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI v2.3 compliant. It
integrates USB 2.0 interface. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that pro-
vides 480 Mb/s bandwidth for 8 USB 2.0 ports (4 USB ports and 2 USB 2.0 headers
support additional 4 USB ports). The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host con-
troller, supporting six SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, COM, one VGA port, one DVI port, four USB ports, one LAN
port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6/8-ch (optional) line-out.
*Due to the DRAM maximum size (2 GB per dimm) at present, the memory
maximum size we have tested is 4 GB.
Introducing the Motherboard
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64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon
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Generation 2.0. In addition, one PCI Express x1 slot
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AMD
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