Elitegroup A960M-M2 (V1.0) - Manual (Page 5)

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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the A960M-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket AM3+ for AMD
AM3+ FX
TM / Phenom TM II /Athlon TM II / Sempron TM 100 Series processors for high-
end business or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard incorporates the AMD 760G Northbridge (NB) and SB710
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The Northbridge supports the HyperTransport
TM 3.0 in-
terface . It supports two DDR3 slots with maximum memory size of 16 GB. One PCI
Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI
Express Base Specification Revision 2.0.
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 Express
Base Specification, Revision 1.1. It integrates USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to
eight functional ports (four USB ports and two USB 2.0 headers support additional
four 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. 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 connector, one COM port, one D-SUB (VGA) port, one HDMI port (or
DVI port), four USB ports, one LAN port and audio jacks for microphone, line-in
and line-out.