ECS A47G Series User Manual - Chapter 1 Introduction

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Motherboard User’s Guide

Chapter 1 Introduction

This motherboard is a high performance, enhanced function motherboard that sup-

ports socket FM1 for AMD A series processor for high-end business or personal

desktop markets.

This motherboard is based on AMD A55 (Hudson D2) express chipset for best

desktop platform. A55 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-

Transport peripheral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device con-

troller. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies of

1866

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/1600/1333. It supports two DDR3 sockets with maximum memory size of

32 GB. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express x16 slot. It also supports one

PCI slot which is PCI 2.3 compliant. In addition, one PCI Express x1 slot is

supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification, Revision 1.1. It

integrats USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to eight USB 2.0 functional ports (4

USB 2.0 ports and 2 USB 2.0 headers support additional 4 USB 2.0 ports). This

motherboard integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting four SATA ports

with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each. It provides AMD SATA RAID

configuration with RAID 0, 1 and 10 modes supported.

There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and

keyboard connectors, one D-sub (VGA) port, four USB 2.0 ports, one LAN port,

three audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6-ch line-out. This motherboard is

designed in a Micro ATX form factor using a four-layer  printed circuit board and

measures 230 mm x 180 mm.

Note: This board supports CPU up to 100W TDP only.

Key Features

The key features of this motherboard include:

Socket-FM1 Processor Support

•     

Supports socket FM1 for AMD A series processor

•    

Supports HyperTransport

TM

(HT) 3.0 interface Speeds

HyperTransport

TM

technology is a point-to-point link between two devices, it

enables integrated circuits to exchange information at much higher speeds than

currently available interconnect technologies.

Note:

*1.Due to the limitation of chipset spec, it supports up to 1866 MHz for

   motherboard with a single DIMM per channel.