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Chapter 2: Hardware information

2.4

System memory

2.4.1

Overview

The motherboard comes with four Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) Dual Inline Memory

Modules (DIMM) sockets.
A DDR3 module has the same physical dimensions as a DDR3 DIMM but is

notched differently. DDR3 modules are developed for better performance with less

power consumption.
The figure illustrates the location of the DDR3 DIMM sockets:

Channel

Sockets

Channel A

DIMM_A1 and DIMM_A2

Channel B

DIMM_B1 and DIMM_B2

MAXIMUS EXTREME

®

MAXIMUS EXTREME

240-pin DDR3 DIMM sockets

DIMM_A2

DIMM_A1

DIMM_B2

DIMM_B1

The motherboard supports upto 1333MHz and provides more ratio setting items.

Refer to the table below for details.

FSB

1600

1333

1066

DDR3

1600 1333 1200 1000 800 1333 1111 1000 833 889