Elitegroup A960M-MV (V1.0A) - Manual (Page 5)

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A960M-MV USER MANUAL
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the A960M-MV motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports socket
AM3/AM3+ for
AMD FX TM /Phenom TM II/Athlon TM II/Sempron TM 100 series processors for high-end busi-
ness or personal desktop markets.
The motherboard is based on AMD 760G (RS780L) Northbridge (NB) and SB710
Southbridge (SB) chipsets. The memory controller supports DDR3 memory
DIMM
frequencies of 1866(OC)/1600/1333/1066. 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 Gen2. In addition, one PCI Express x1 slot is sup-
ported.
The SB710 Southbridge integrates USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to eight USB 2.0
ports (four USB 2.0 ports at the rear panel and two USB 2.0 headers support addi-
tional four USB 2.0 ports). It also integrates a Serial ATA host controller, supporting
four SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 3Gb/s each.
There is an advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and
keyboard connectors, four USB 2.0 ports, one LAN port, one D-sub (VGA) port, one
HDMI port (optional) and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
Your motherboard package ships with the following items:
Package Contents
A960M-MV Motherboard
User Manual
DVD
I/O Shield
2 SATA 3Gb/s Cables ‰
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The package contents above are for reference only, please take the actual
package items as standard.