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M4A87TD EVO specications summary
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CPU AMD
®
Socket AM3 for AMD
®
Phenom™ II / Athlon™ II /
Sempron™ 100 Series ProcessorsSempron™ 100 Series Processors
AMD
®
140W CPU Support
AMD
®
Cool ‘n’ Quiet™ 2.0 Technology (by CPU type)
Supports 45nm CPU
Chipset AMD
®
870 / SB850
System bus Up to 5200 MT/s; HyperTransport™ 3.0 interface
Memory 4 x DIMM, max. 16 GB, DDR3 2000 (O.C.) / 1600 / 1333 /
1066 MHz ECC / non-ECC, un-buffered memory
Dual-channel memory architecture
DDR3 Memory Ultra Low Voltage support
* Due to OS limitation, when installing total memory of 4GB
capacity or more, Windows
®
32-bit operating system may only
recognize less than 3GB. Install a 64-bit Windows
®
OS when you
want to install 4GB or more memory on the motherboard.
** Due to CPU spec., AMD 100 and 200 series CPUs support up to
DDR3 1066MHz. With ASUS design, this motherboard can
support up to DDR3 1333MHz.
*** Refer to www.asus.com or this user manual for the Memory
QVL (Qualied Vendors Lists)
Multi-GPU support Supports ATIATI
®
Quad-GPU CrossFireX™ TechnologyCrossFireX™ Technology
Expansion slots 2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (blue at x16 mode, black at x4 mode)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slot
3 x PCI 2.2 slots
Storage SB850 chipet:
- 6 x SATA 6Gb/s supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10
JMicron
®
JMB361 SATA & PATA controllers:
- 1 x UltraDMA 133/100 for up to 2 PATA devices
- 1 x External SATA 3Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
LAN RTL8111E PCIe Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET 2
Audio VIA
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VT1818 8-channel High Denition Audio CODEC
- Supports Jack-Detection, Multi-Streaming and Front
Panel Jack-Retasking
- Optical S/PDIF Out port at back I/O
- Supports 192kHz/24bit BD Lossless Sound
- ASUS Noise Filter
IEEE 1394 VIA
®
VT6308P controller supports 2 x IEEE 1394a ports
USB NEC USB 3.0 controller:
- 2 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports (blue at back panel)
SB850 chipset:
- 12 x USB 2.0 ports (6 ports at midboard; 6 ports at back
panel)panel)