ECS A780GM-A Ultra V1.0 A780GM-A ULTRA V1.0 User Manual

1

Introducing the Motherboard

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Thank you for choosing the A780GM-A Ultra motherboard. This motherboard is a
high performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket for 

AMD

Phenom

TM 

processor (socket AM2+)

/Athlon

TM

 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon

TM

 64/

Sempron

TM

 

processors 

for high-end business or personal desktop markets.

There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, one VGA port, one HDMI port, six USB ports, one ESATA
port, one optical SPDIFO port, one LAN port  and audio jacks for microphone, line-
in and 6/8-channel High Definition Audio output.

The motherboard incorporates the AMD 780G Northbridge (NB) and SB750
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport

TM 

3.0 in-

terface

. 

The memory controller supports DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies of

1066

*

1

 (AM2+)/800/667/533/400. It supports four DDR2 slots with maximum

memory size of 32 GB

*

2

. One PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface,

are fully compliant to the PCI Express Genaration 2.0 (version 2.0).

The SB750 Southbridge supports three PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. In
addition, two PCI Express x1 slots are supported, fully compliant to the PCI Express
Generation 2.0 (version 2.0). It integrates USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to
twelve functional ports (six USB ports and three USB 2.0 headers support additional
six USB ports).

 

One onboard IDE connector supports two IDE devices in Ultra ATA

133/100/66/33 modes. The Southbridge integrates a Serial ATA host controller,
supporting six SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3.0 Gb/s each.

d i m m ) .