PC CHIPS A45G Manuale Utente

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This motherboard is a high performance, enhanced function motherboard that sup-
ports socket AM3 for AMD Phenom

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II/Athlon II/Sempron processors for high-

end business or personal desktop markets.

This motherboard is based on AMD RS780L Northbridge (NB) and SB710 Sout-
hbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport

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 3.0

interface. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory DIMM frequencies
of 1333/1066/800. It supports two DDR3 sockets with maximum memory size
of 8 GB. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express x16 slot.

The SB710 Southbridge supports two PCI slots which are PCI 2.3 compliant. In
addition, one PCI Express x1 slot is supported, fully compliant to the PCI Expr-
ess Base Specification, Revision 1.1. It integrats USB 2.0 interface, supporting
up to eight functional ports (4 USB 2.0 ports and 2 USB 2.0 headers support
additional 4 USB 2.0 ports). One onboard IDE connector supports two IDE de-
vices in Ultra ATA 133/100/66/33 modes. The Southbridge 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, VGA, four USB 2.0 ports, one LAN port and audio
jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out. This motherboar- d is designed in a
Micro ATX form factor using a four-layer  printed circuit board and measures
244 mm x 180 mm.

Note: This board supports CPU up to 95W TDP only.

Key Features

The key features of this motherboard include:

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Accommodates AMD Phenom

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II/Athlon II/Sempron processors

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Supports HyperTransport

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(HT) 3.0 interface Speeds

HyperTransport

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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.