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Motherboard User’s Guide
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard has a Socket AM2 supporting the newest and advanced AM2
AMD Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon 64/Sempron CPUs
with HyperTransport Technology processors, Front-Side Bus (FSB) speeds up
to 1000 MHz.
This motherboard is based on MCP61 Value media and communications
processor that supports the Serial ATA interface for high-performance and
mainstream desktop PCs, and the built-in USB 2.0 providing higher bandwidth.
It implements Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0.
It supports 6-channel High Definition Audio Codec and provides one IDE
Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 channel. It has two 32-bit PCI slots, one PCI
Express Pro slot and one PCI Express x1 slot, and supports the onboard
10Base-T/100Base-TX Network interface (optional). In addition, this
motherboard has a full set of I/O ports including two PS/2 ports for mouse and
keyboard, one serial port, one parallel port, one LAN port (optional), one VGA
port, four back-panel USB2.0 ports, and three audio jacks for microphone, line-
in and line-out. Onboard USB header(s) can provide extra ports by connecting
the Extended USB Module to the motherboard.
This motherboard is a micro-ATX size motherboard and has power connectors
for an ATX power supply.
Key Features
The key features of this motherboard include:
Socket-AM2 Processor Support
• Supports AM2 AMD Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon
64/Sempron processors
• Supports Front-Side Bus 1000 MHz
Note: HyperTransport Technology is a point-to-point link between two
devices, it enables integrated circuits to exchange information at much
higher speeds than currently available interconnect technologies.
Chipset
There is a single chip “NVIDIA nForce® MCP61 Value media”, in this chipset
in accordance with an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability
and performance.
• HyperTransport link up to 1.0 GHz to the CPU
• DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3.0 graphics processing unit
• Two separate PCI Express controllers with 2 total lanes configured as
one x16 (support x1 VGA Interface) and one x1 PCI Express slots
• Support 2 SATA2 3.0 Gb/s devices
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