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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the A785GM-M7 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket for AMD
Phenom
TM
II processor (AM3 socket) for high-end business 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, COM, one VGA port, one DVI port, four USB ports, one LAN
port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
*Due to the DRAM maximum size (2 GB per dimm) at present, the memory
maximum size we have tested is 4 GB.
The motherboard incorporates the AMD 785G Northbridge (NB) and SB710
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport
TM
3.0 in-
terface. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies of
1333/1066. It supports two DDR3 slots with maximum memory size of 16 GB
*
. One
PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, are fully compliant to the PCI
Express Gen2 (version 2.0). In addition, one PCI Express x1 slot is supported.
The SB710 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI v2.3 compliant. It
integrates USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to ten functional ports (four USB ports
and three USB 2.0 headers support additional six USB ports). One onboard IDE
connector supports two IDE devices in Ultra
A
TA 133/100/66/33 modes. The
Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting six SATA ports with
maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each. It provides AMD SATA RAID configura-
tion with RAID 0, 1 and 10 modes supported.
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