ECS A780GM-A User Manual

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Installing the Motherboard
Expansion Slots
Installing Add-on Cards
The slots on this motherboard are designed to hold expansion cards and connect
them to the system bus. Expansion slots are a means of adding or enhancing the
motherboard’s features and capabilities. With these efficient facilities, you can in-
crease the motherboard’s capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks that are
not part of the basic system.
PCIEX16 Slot
PCI1~3 Slots
This motherboard is equipped with three standard PCI slots. PCI
stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect and is a bus stan-
dard for expansion cards, which for the most part, is a supple-
ment of the older ISA bus standard. The PCI slots on this board
are PCI v2.3 compliant.
The PCI Express x1 slots are fully compliant to the PCI Express
Generation 2.0 (version 2.0).
PCIE1~2 Slots
Before installing an add-on card, check the documentation for
the card carefully. If the card is not Plug and Play, you may have
to manually configure the card before installation.
The PCI Express x16 slot is used to install an external PCI
Express graphics card that is fully compliant to the PCI Express
Generation 2.0 (version 2.0).

ECS A780GM-A Specifications

General

Internal memory	32 GB
Number of memory slots	4
Processor socket	Socket AM2
Processor manufacturer	AMD
Compatible processor series	AMD Sempron
USB 2.0 connectors	3
S/PDIF out connector	Yes
Number of COM connectors	1
Number of SATA connectors	5
USB 2.0 ports quantity	6
Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports	0
Motherboard chipset	AMD 780G
Motherboard form factor	ATX
BIOS type	AMI
PCI Express x1 slots	2
Maximum graphics card memory	1920 MB
Controller interface type	AMD SB700
RAID levels	0, 1