ECS GF8200A User Manual

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Installing the Motherboard
Expansion Slots
Installing Add-on Cards
The slots on this motherboard are designed to hold expansion cards and connect
them to the system bus. Expansion slots are a means of adding or enhancing the
motherboard’s features and capabilities. With these efficient facilities, you can
increase the motherboard’s capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks that
are not part of the basic system.
PCIEX16 Slot The PCI Express x16 slot is used to install an external PCI Express
graphics card that is fully compliant to the PCI Express Generation
2.0.
PCI1~3 Slots This motherboard is equipped with three standard PCI slots. PCI
stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect and is a bus standard
for expansion cards, which for the most part, is a supplement of the
older ISA bus standard. The PCI slots on this board are PCI v2.3
compliant.
The PCI Express x1 slots are fully compliant to the PCI Express
Generation 1.1 as well.
PCIE1~2 Slots
Before installing an add-on card, check the documentation for the card
carefully. If the card is not Plug and Play, you may have to manually
configure the card before installation.

ECS GF8200A Specifications

General

Number of memory slots	4
Maximum internal memory	32 GB
Processor socket	Socket AM2
Processor manufacturer	AMD
Compatible processor series	AMD Sempron
USB 2.0 connectors	3
Power fan connector	Yes
Number of COM connectors	1
Number of SATA connectors	5
USB 2.0 ports quantity	6
Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports	0
Audio chip	IDT 92HD206
Audio output channels	7.1 channels
Motherboard form factor	ATX
BIOS type	AMI
BIOS memory size	64 Mbit
PCI Express x1 slots	2
Maximum graphics card memory	512 MB
RAID levels	0, 1