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A960M-M3 USER MANUAL
CPU
Specifications
• AMD 760G & AMD SB710Chipset
• Dual-channel DDR3 memory architecture
• 2 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM sockets support up to 16 GB
• Supports DDR3
1800(OC)/1600(OC)/1333 MHz DDR3 SDRAM
Memory
• 1 x PCI Express x16 Gen2 slot
• 1 x PCI Express x1 Gen2 slot
• 2 x PCI slots
Expansion
Slots
Storage
• 1 x PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
• 1 x D-Sub port (VGA)
• 1 x DVI port (Optional)
• 4 x USB 2.0 ports
• 1 x RJ45 LAN connector
• 1 x Audio port (Line in, Line out, Mic_in Rear)
Rear Panel I/O
LAN
• Socket AM3 for AMD FX
TM
/ Phenom
TM
II /Athlon
TM
II / Sempron
TM
100 Series processors
• Supports “Hyper-Threading” technology CPU
Note: Please go to ECS website for the latest CPU support list.
Note: Please go to ECS website for the latest Memory support list.
• 1 x 24-pin ATX Power Supply connector
• 1 x 4-pin 12V Power connector
• 1 x 4-pin CPU_FAN connector
• 1 x 3-pin SYS_FAN connector
• 2 x USB 2.0 headers support additional four USB 2.0 ports
• 4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors
• 1 x COM header
• 1 x Case open header
• 1 x Front Panel audio header
• 1 x Front Panel switch/LED header
• 1 x Speaker header
• 1 x Parallel port header(LPT)
• 1 x CLR_CMOS header
• 1 x Primary IDE connector
• 1 x SPI_debug header
Internal I/O
Connectors &
Headers
Audio
• Supported by AMD SB710 Express Chipset
• 4 x Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s Host Controllers
• RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 Configuration
• VIA VT1705 6-ch High Definition audio CODEC
• Compliant with HD audio specification
• Realtek RTL8111E Gigabit LAN
• On Chip (AMD 760G-based with ATI
TM
Radeon HD3000 graph-
ics)
• Integrated DirectX 10 graphics processor
• Share memory maximum update to 512MB
Graphics