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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
*1. Due to AMD CPU spec limitation, please refer to Memory QVL for more
information.
Thank you for choosing the A880GM-AD3 motherboard. This motherboard is a
high performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket for AM3
Phenom
TM
II/Athlon
TM
II/ Sempron
TM
processors for high-end business or personal
desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the AMD 880G 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
1600 (OC)/1333/1066/800
*1
. It supports four DDR3 slots with maximum memory
size of 32 GB
*2
. One PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, are fully
compliant to the PCI Express (version 2.0). In addition, two PCI Express x1 slots
are supported.
The SB710 Southbridge supports three PCI slot which is PCI v2.3 compliant. It
integrates USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to twelve functional ports (six USB ports
and three USB 2.0 headers support additional six USB ports). One onboard IDE
connector supports two IDE devices in Ultra ATA 133/100/66 modes. The Southbridge
integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting five SATA ports with maximum
transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each. It provides AMD SATA RAID configuration with
RAID 0, 1 and 10 modes supported.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including one DVI port, one
VGA port, one LAN port, one eSATA port, one optical SPDIFO port, six USB ports,
and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 8-channel line-out.
*2. Due to the DRAM maximum size is 4GB at present, the memory maxi-
mum size we have tested is 16GB.
In addition, this motherboard comes with a power on button, a reset button and a
CLR_CMOS button. The processor can be overclocked when CPU Over-clocking
Func. is set to Enabled in M.I.B.II (MB Intelligent BIOS II).
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