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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the H55H-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1156
socket for latest Intel
®
Core
TM
i7/Core
TM
i5/Core
TM
i3 processors for high-end busi-
ness or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including one PS/2 mouse and keyboard combo connector, one DVI port, one VGA
port, six USB ports, one ESATA port, two LAN ports, one SPDIF output port and
audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 8-ch line-out.
This motherboard is based on Intel
®
H55 Express Chipset for best desktop platform
solution. H55 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-Threading
peripheral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device controller. This
motherboard supports up to 16 GB of system memory with dual channel DDR3
1333/1066 MHz. Two PCI slots are supported, fully compliant with PCI rev 2.3
specification at 33MHz. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express slot, intended
for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification
revision 2.0. Additionally, one PCI Express x4 slot is supported, fully compliant to
the PCI Express Base Specificaiton revision 2.0 as well. It implements an EHCI
compliant interface that provides twelve USB 2.0 ports (six USB ports and three
USB 2.0 headers support additional six USB ports).