ECS GF8100VM-M5 User Manual

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Introducing the Motherboard
This motherboard supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 133/
100/66 Mb/s.
• One PCI Express x16 slot for Graphics Interface
• Two PCI Express x1 slots
• One 32-bit PCI v2.3 compliant slot
• One IDE connector supporting up to two IDE devices
• One floppy disk drive interface
• Six 7-pin SATA connectors
Expansion Options
Integrated I/O
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port
• One VGA port
• Four USB ports
• One LAN port
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6/8-ch (optional) line-out
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
Onboard LAN (Optional)
The onboard LAN provides either of the following features:
Audio (Optional)
The onboard Audio provides either of the following features:
• 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec
• Exceeds Microsoft Windows Logo Program (WLP) Require-
ments
• ADCs support 44.1K/48K/96K/192KHz sample rate
• Power Support: Digital: 3.3V; Analog: 5.0V
• 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec
• ADCs support 44.1k/48k/96kHz sample rate
• Meets Microsoft WLP 3.08 Vista premium and mobile PCs
audio requirements.
• Direct sound 3D
TM
compatible
• 10/100 full/half duplex operation
• Supports RMII mode , MII, and 7-wire SNI (Serial Network
Interface)
• IEE 802.3/802.3u compliant
• Compliant with 1000Base-T IEEE 802.3ab, 100Base-TX
IEEE 802.3u
• Supports half/full duplex operation
• IEEE 802.3 compliant RGMII/MII

ECS GF8100VM-M5 Specifications

General

Number of memory slots	2
Maximum internal memory	16 GB
Processor socket	Socket AM2
Processor manufacturer	AMD
USB 2.0 connectors	4
Power fan connector	Yes
Number of SATA connectors	6
Controller interface type	NVIDIA MCP78V
PS/2 ports quantity	1
USB 2.0 ports quantity	USB 2.0 ports have a data transmission speed of 480 Mbps, and are backwards compatible with USB 1.1 ports. You can connect all kinds of peripheral devices to them.
Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports	0
Audio chip	VIA VT1708B
Power source type	ATX
Audio output channels	6.1 channels
Motherboard form factor	micro ATX
BIOS type	AMI
Maximum graphics card memory	512 MB
RAID levels	0, 1