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Feature
Processor
This motherboard uses a socket AM3+ that carries the following features:
•
Accommodates
AM3+)
•
Supports HyperTransport
HyperTransport
enables integrated circuits to exchange information at much higher speeds than
currently available interconnect technologies.
Chipset
The AMD 990FX Northbridge (NB) and SB950 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are
based on an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and
performance.
AMD 990FX
(NB)
SB950 (SB)
Memory
•
Supports DDR3
channel architecture
•
Accommodates four unbuffered DIMMs
AMD Phenom
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 three x16 PCI-Express Gen2 graphics link
•
Fully supports ACPI states S1, S3, S4 and S5
•
Complies with all relevant Windows Logo Program
(WLP) requirements from Microsoft
cation.
•
Supports 16-bit up/down HyperTransport (HT) 3.0 in-
terface up to 5.2 GT/s.
•
Compliant with PCI 2.3 specification at 33 MHz
•
Four-lane PCI Express
ing up to two general purpose devices. Supported
configurations include: § 1x4 § 2x4 § 1x2+2x1 § 4x1
•
Supports six Serial ATA devices which speeds up to 6
Gb/s and one IDE ATA133
•
Supports two eSATA3 which speeds up to 6.0 Gb/s
through the bundled eSATA3 bracket
•
Integrated USB 3.0 Host Controller supporting up to
two USB 3.0 ports
•
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 6 ports (RAID 10 requires
use of 4 or more SATA ports, and RAID 5 requires use
of 3 or more SATA ports)
2133 (OC)/1866/1600/1333
Introducing the Motherboard
TM
and later desktop processors (socket
®
®
(PCIe
) 2.0 interface, support-
DDR3 SDRAM with Dual-
®
for WHQL certifi-
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