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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the P55H-CM motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1156
socket for Intel
®
Lynnfield processor for high-end business or personal desktop
markets.
This motherboard is based on Intel
®
P55 Express Chipset for best desktop platform
solution. P55 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. One PCI slot is 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. 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).
It supports Intel
®
Matrix Storage Technology, providing both AHCI and RAID 0, 1,
5 and 10 configuration.
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, LPT1, one LAN port, six USB ports,
and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.