Asus M5A97 - Package Contents; Specifications Summary

M5A97 PLUS specications summary
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Package contents
Check your motherboard package for the following items.
Motherboard ASUS M5A97 PLUS 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
®
AM3+ socket for AMD
®
FX™/Phenom™ II/Athlon™ II/Sempron™
100 series processors
Support AMD
®
Cool n Quiet™ Technology
Supports CPU up to 140W
• Refer to www.asus.com for the AMD
®
CPU support list.
Chipset AMD
®
970/SB950
System Bus Up to 5200 MT/s HyperTransport™ 3.0
Memory 4 x DIMM slots support maximum 32GB unbuffered ECC and non-ECC
DDR3 2133(O.C.)/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules
Dual-channel memory architecture
• Due to OS limitation, 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.
• AMD
®
FX Series CPU on this motherboard supports up to DDR3 1866MHz as its
standard memory frequency.
• AMD AM3 100 and 200 series CPU support up to DDR3 1066MHz.
• Refer to www.asus.com for the latest Memory QVL (Qualied Vendors List).
Expansion slots 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slot
2 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots
3 x PCI slots
Storage 6 x Serial ATA 6 Gb/s connectors with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10
and JBOD support
LAN RTL8111F PCIe Gb LAN
Audio ALC887 7.1-Channel Audio CODEC
USB 14 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (6 ports at mid-board, 8 ports at rear panel)
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