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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the A75F-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket
for FM1 for
AMD A series processor for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including one PS/2 mouse
and keyboard combo connector, one HDMI port (DVI port optional), one D-sub
(VGA) port, six USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, one LAN port, three audio jacks
for microphone, line-in and 6-ch line-out.
The motherboard is based on AMD A75 (Hudson D3) express chipset for best desk-
top platform. A75 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-
Transport peripheral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device control-
ler
. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies of 1866*
1
/
1600/1333.
It supports two DDR3 slots with maximum memory size of 32*
2
GB.
One PCI Express x16 slots, intended for Graphics Interface, are fully compliant to
the PCI Express Gen2 (version 2.0). In addition, two PCI Express x1 slots and one
PCI slot are supported.
It integrates USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 interface, supporting up to ten USB 2.0 ports (six
USB 2.0 ports and two USB 2.0 headers support additional four USB 2.0 ports) and
four USB 3.0 ports (two USB 3.0 ports and one USB 3.0 header supports additional
two USB 3.0 ports). The gray USB 2.0 header provides EZ charger technology,
please refer to chapter 2 parts of
Front Panel USB 2.0 headers to check the detail
information. This motherboard integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting
six SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 6 Gb/s each.
*1 Due to the limitation of chipset spec, it supports up to 1866 MHz for
motherboard with a single DIMM per channel.
*2 Please refer to Memory QVL for more information.