Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P - Product Specifications

Hardware Installation
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1-2 ProductSpecications
CPU  AM3+ Socket:
- AMDAM3+FXprocessor
- AMD AM3 Phenom
™
II processor/ AMD Athlon
™
II processor
(GotoGIGABYTE'swebsiteforthelatestCPUsupportlist.)
Hyper Transport
Bus
 4800 MT/s
Chipset
 NorthBridge:AMD970
 South Bridge: AMD SB950
Memory  4x1.5VDDR3DIMMsocketssupportingupto32GBofsystemmemory
* DuetoaWindows32-bitoperatingsystemlimitation,whenmorethan4GBofphysical
memoryisinstalled,theactualmemorysizedisplayedwillbelessthanthesizeof
the physical memory installed.
 Dual channel memory architecture
 SupportforDDR32000(O.C.)/1866/1600/1333/1066MHzmemorymodules
* TosupportaDDR31866MHz(andabove)memory,youmustinstallanAM3+CPU
rst.
 SupportforExtremeMemoryProle(XMP)memorymodules
 (GotoGIGABYTE'swebsiteforthelatestsupportedmemoryspeedsandmemory
modules.)
Audio  VIA
®
VT2021codec
 HighDenitionAudio
 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
 Support for S/PDIF Out
LAN  Realtek
®
GbELANchip(10/100/1000Mbit)
Expansion Slots  1xPCIExpressx16slot,runningatx16(PCIEX16)
* Foroptimumperformance,ifonlyonePCIExpressgraphicscardistobeinstalled,
besuretoinstallitinthePCIEX16slot.
 1xPCIExpressx16slot,runningatx4(PCIEX4)
 3 x PCI Express x1 slots
(AllPCIExpressslotsconformtoPCIExpress2.0standard.)
 2 x PCI slots
Storage Interface  South Bridge:
- 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors supporting up to 6 SATA 6Gb/s devices
- Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and JBOD
USB  South Bridge:
- Upto14USB2.0/1.1ports(8portsonthebackpanel,6portsavailable
throughtheinternalUSBheaders)
 VIA
®
VL805chip:
- Upto4USB3.0/2.0ports(2portsonthebackpanel,2portsavailable
throughtheinternalUSBheader)