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Introducing the Motherboard

Specifications

*1. Due to the limitation of chipset spec, it supports up to 1866 MHz for

motherboard with a single DIMM per channel.

• AMD A55 (Hudson D2)

• FM1 for AMD A series processors

• Supports CPU up to 100W TDP

• Dual-channel DDR3 memory architecture

• 2 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM sockets support up to 32 GB

• Supports DDR3 DDR3 1866*

/1600/1333 SDRAM

• 1 x PCI Express Gen2 x16 slot

• 1 x PCI Express x1 slot

• 1 x PCI slot

• Supported by AMD A55 (Hudson D2)

- 4 x Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s Host Controllers

• VT1705CE 6-Ch High Definition audio CODEC

• Realtek 8111E VL Gigabit LAN

• Realtek 8105E VL 10/100 LAN (optional)

• 1 x D-sub (VGA) port

• 1 x PS/2 keyboard & PS/2 mouse connectors

• 4 x USB 2.0 ports

• 1 x RJ45 LAN port

• 1 x Audio port (Line in, microphone in and line out)

• 1 x 24-pin ATX Power Supply connector

• 1 x 4-pin ATX Power Supply connector

• 1 x 4-pin CPU_FAN connector

• 1 x 3-pin SYS_FAN connector

• 2 x USB 2.0 headers support additional 4 USB 2.0 ports

• 4 x Serial ATA 3Gb/s connectors

• 1 x COM header

• 1 x LPT header

• 1 x Front panel audio header

• 1 x Case Open header

• 1 x Speaker header

• 1 x Clear CMOS header

• 1 x SPDIF out header

• 1 x Front panel USB power select jumper

• 1 x Rear USB/PS2 power select jumper

Chipset

Memory

Expansion

Slots

Storage

Audio

LAN

Rear Panel I/O

Internal I/O

Connectors &

Headers

• AMI BIOS with 16Mb SPI Flash ROM

• Supports Multi-language BIOS Utility

• Supports ECS M.I.B III Utility

CPU

System BIOS

Form Factor • MATX Size, 230mm x 180mm

AP support

• Supports eDLU/eSF/eBLU

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ECS A55F-M3 Specifications

General

Memory channels	Dual-channel
Supported memory types	DDR3-SDRAM
Supported memory clock speeds	1333, 1600, 1866 MHz
Processor socket	Socket FM1
Processor manufacturer	AMD
Compatible processor series	AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core, AMD Sempron
USB 2.0 connectors	2
Power fan connector	Yes
Number of COM connectors	1
Number of SATA II connectors	4
Number of Parallel ATA connectors	0
Headphone outputs	3
USB 2.0 ports quantity	USB 2.0 ports have a data transmission speed of 480 Mbps, and are backwards compatible with USB 1.1 ports. You can connect all kinds of peripheral devices to them.
Audio chip	VIA VT1705
Component for	PC
Power source type	ATX
Motherboard chipset	AMD A55
Audio output channels	5.1 channels
Motherboard form factor	micro ATX
Compatible operating systems	Windows XP, Vista
RAID levels	0, 1, 10
Supported storage drive interfaces	SATA II
On-board graphics card	No
Parallel processing technology support	Not supported
LAN controller	Realtek RTL8111E
Networking features	Gigabti Ethernet
Ethernet interface type	Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
BIOS type	AMI
BIOS memory size	16 Mbit