User's Manual

A78M-E specifications summary
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Package contents
Check your motherboard package for the following items.
Motherboard ASUS A78M-E motherboard
Cables 2 x Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s cables
Accessories 1 x I/O Shield
Application DVD Support DVD
Documentation User Guide
If any of the above items is damaged or missing, contact your retailer.
APU AMD
®
FM2+ socket for AMD
®
A-Series/Athlon™ series processors
Supports CPU up to 4 cores
AMD
®
Turbo Core Technology 3.0 support
• TheAMD
®
Turbo Core Technology 3.0 support depends on the APU types.
• Refertowww.asus.com for the AMD
®
APU support list.
Chipset AMD
®
A78 FCH
Memory 2 x 240-pin DIMM slots support maximum 32GB unbuffered non-ECC
DDR3 2400(O.C.)/2133/1866/1600/1333 MHz memory modules
Dual-channel memory architecture
Supports AMD Memory Prole (AMP) memory
• HyperDIMMsupportissubjecttothephysicalcharacteristicsofindivudal
APUs.
• Themaximum32GBmemorycapacitycanbesupportedwith16GBorabove
DIMMs. ASUS will update the memory QVL once the DIMMs are available in the
market.
• Refertowww.asus.comforthelatestMemoryQVL(QualifiedVendorsList).
• Whenyouinstallatotalmemoryof4GBcapacityormore,Windows
®
32-bit
operation system may only recognize less than 3GB. We recommend a
maximum of 3GB system memory if you are using a Windows
®
32-bit operating
system.
Graphics Integrated AMD Radeon™ R/HD 8000/ HD 7000 Series Graphics in
A-Series APU
Multi-VGA output support: HDMI, DVI, D-Sub ports
- Supports HDMI with max. resolution of
4096x2160@24Hz/1920x1200@60Hz
- Supports Dual-link DVI with max. resolution of 2560x1600@60Hz
- Supports D-Sub with max. resolution of 1920x1600@60Hz
- Maximum shared memory of 2G
- Supports AMD
®
Dual Graphics technology
• Refertohttp://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/dual-graphics/Pages/
dual-graphics.aspx#3 for the discrete GPUs that support Dual Graphics
technology.
• OnlyFM2+APUcansupportupto4096x2160resolutiondisplayviaHDMIport.
Expansion slots 1 x PCI Express 3.0/2.0 x16 slot*
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot
1 x PCI slot
*OnlyFM2+processorscansupportPCIe3.0.
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