Introducing The Motherboard; Introduction - ECS A75F-A User Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the A75F-A motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket
Llano processors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard is based on AMD A75 (Hudson D3) express chipset for best desk-
top platform. A75 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-
Transport peripheral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device control-
ler. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory
2133 (OC)/1866/1600*
of 32 GB. Two PCI Express x16 slots*
compliant to the PCI Express Gen2 (version 2.0). In addition, two PCI Express x1
slots and three PCI slots are supported.
It integrates USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 interface, supporting up to ten USB 2.0 ports(four
USB 2.0 ports and three USB 2.0 headers support additional six USB 2.0 ports) and
four USB 3.0 ports(two USB 3.0 ports at rear panel and one USB 3.0 header supports
two USB 3.0 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. This motherboard integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting
five SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 6Gb/s each.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including one PS/2 mouse
and keyboard combo connector, one HDMI port, one D-sub(VGA) port, one DVI
port, four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, one Giga LAN port, one eSATA 6Gb/s
Port, one Clear CMOS Button, one optical SPDIFO port and audio jacks for micro-
phone, line-in and 8-ch line-out.
*1. Due to the limitation of AMD CPU spec, please refer to Memory QVL
for more information.
nd
*2. The 2
1
. It supports four DDR3 slots with maximum memory size
2
, intended for Graphics Interface, are fully
one(PCIEx16_S) runs at x4.
Introducing the Motherboard
FM1 for AMD
DIMM frequencies of
1
2400(OC)/