ECS A780GM-A User Guide

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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing this motherboard. This motherboard is a high performance,
enhanced function motherboard that supports socket AM2+ for AMD Phenom™/
Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon™ 64/Sempron™ processors for high-end busi-
ness or personal desktop markets.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, one VGA port, one HDMI port, six USB ports, one eSATA
port, one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 8-ch line-out.
The SB700 Southbridge supports three PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. It
integrates USB 2.0 interface. One onboard IDE connector supports two IDE devices
in Ultra ATA 133/100/66/33 modes. The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host
controller, supporting five SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s
each.
The motherboard incorporates the AMD 780G Northbridge (NB) and SB700
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport
TM
3.0 in-
terface. It supports four DDR2 slots with maximum memory size of 8 GB. One PCI
Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI
Express Generation 2.0 (version 2.0).

ECS A780GM-A Specifications

General

Internal memory	32 GB
Number of memory slots	4
Processor socket	Socket AM2
Processor manufacturer	AMD
Compatible processor series	AMD Sempron
USB 2.0 connectors	3
S/PDIF out connector	Yes
Number of COM connectors	1
Number of SATA connectors	5
USB 2.0 ports quantity	6
Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports	0
Motherboard chipset	AMD 780G
Motherboard form factor	ATX
BIOS type	AMI
PCI Express x1 slots	2
Maximum graphics card memory	1920 MB
Controller interface type	AMD SB700
RAID levels	0, 1