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Introducing the Motherboard

Feature

Processor

HyperTransport

Technology is a point-to-point link between two devices, it

enables integrated circuits to exchange information at much higher speeds than

currently available interconnect technologies.

• Accommodates AM3 Phenom

II/Athlon

II/ Sempron

processors

• Supports HyperTransport

(HT) 3.0 interface speeds

• Support transfer rate up to 5200 mega-transfers per second

This motherboard uses a socket AM3 that carries the following features:

Chipset

This board supports CPU up to 95W TDP only; you can refer to AMD

website to check your CPU.

• Compliant with PCI 2.3 specification at 33 MHz

• Supports five Serial ATA devices which speeds up to

3.0 Gb/s

• Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to

twelve USB 2.0 ports

• Integrated IDE controller supports Ultra ATA 133/100/

66 modes

• Supports integrated RAID0, RAID1, and RAID 10 (re-

quires use of 4 or more SATA ports) functionalities

across all 5 ports

AMD 880G

(NB)

The AMD 880G Northbridge (NB) and SB710 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are

based on an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and

performance.

SB710

(SB)

Memory

• Supports DDR3 1600 (OC)/1333/1066/800 DDR3 SDRAM with Dual-

channel architecture

• Accommodates four unbuffered DIMMs

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

• One x4 A-Link Express III interface for connection to

an AMD Southbridge. The A-Link Express III is a propri-

etary interface developed by AMD basing on the PCI

Express technology, with additional Northbridge-

Southbridge messaging functionalities. It supports the

PCIe Gen 2 transfer rate of 5 GT/s, and is backward

compatible with the A-Link Express II interface.

• Supports one PCI-Express x16 Gen2 graphics link

• Supports two PCI-Express x1 slots

• Fully supports ACPI states S1, S3, S4 and S5

• Supports ATI Radeon HD4250 Graphics*.

• Supports 16-bit up/down HyperTransport (HT) 3.0 in-

terface up to 4.4 GT/s.

* Due to the DRAM maximum size is 4GB at present, the memory maxi-

mum size we have tested is 16GB

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ECS A880GM-AD3 Specifications

General

Number of memory slots	4
Supported memory clock speeds	800, 1066, 1333, 1600 MHz
Processor socket	Socket AM3
Processor manufacturer	AMD
CPU fan connector	Yes
USB 2.0 connectors	3
Number of SATA connectors	5
Number of Parallel ATA connectors	-
USB 2.0 ports quantity	6
Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports	0
Audio chip	Realtek ALC888S
Motherboard chipset	AMD 880G
Audio output channels	7.1 channels
Motherboard form factor	ATX
Compatible operating systems	Windows XP/Vista/7
Graphics card	Radeon HD 4250
Maximum graphics card memory	512 MB
Parallel processing technology support	Hybrid CrossFireX
PCI Express x1 slots	2
LAN controller	Realtek RTL8111DL
Networking features	Gigabit Ethernet
BIOS type	AMI
BIOS memory size	64 Mbit