Specifications

Introducing the Motherboard

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing this motherboard. This motherboard is a high performance,

enhanced function motherboard that supports socket for AMD Phenom™ proces-

sor (socket AM2+)/Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon™ 64/Sempron™ proces-

sors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.

There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and

keyboard connectors, COM, four USB ports, one LAN port and audio jacks for

microphone, line-in and line-out.

The motherboard incorporates the AMD RX780 Northbridge (NB) and SB700/SB710

Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport

3.0 in-

terface. The memory controller supports DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies of

1066*

(AM2+)/800/667/533. It supports four DDR2 slots with maximum memory

size of 32 GB*

. One PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully

compliant to the PCI Express Gen2 (version 1.0). In addition, two PCI Express x1

slots are supported.

2. Due to the DRAM maximum size (2 GB per dimm) at present, the

memory maximum size we have tested is 8 GB.

1. Due to the limitation of AMD CPU spec, please refer to Memory QVL

for more information.

The SB700/SB710 Southbridge supports three PCI slots which are PCI v2.3 compli-

ant. It integrates USB 2.0, an EHCI compliant interface that provides 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 controller, supporting

four SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each. It provides AMD

SATA RAID configuration with RAID 0, 1 and 10 modes supported.