ECS GF8100VM-M5 User Manual

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Installing the Motherboard
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
increase the motherboard’s capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks that
are not part of the basic system.
PCIEX16 Slot The PCI Express x16 slot is used to install the external PCI Express
graphics card that is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Speci-
fication revision 2.0.
PCI Slot This motherboard is equipped with one standard PCI slot. PCI stands
for Peripheral Component Interconnect and is a bus standard for
expansion cards, which for the most part, is a supplement of the
older ISA bus standard. The PCI slot on this board is PCI v2.3
compliant.
The PCI Express x1 slots are fully compliant to the PCI Express
Base Specification revision 2.0 as well.
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.
Expansion Slots

ECS GF8100VM-M5 Specifications

General

Number of memory slots	2
Maximum internal memory	16 GB
Processor socket	Socket AM2
Processor manufacturer	AMD
USB 2.0 connectors	4
Power fan connector	Yes
Number of SATA connectors	6
Controller interface type	NVIDIA MCP78V
PS/2 ports quantity	1
USB 2.0 ports quantity	USB 2.0 ports have a data transmission speed of 480 Mbps, and are backwards compatible with USB 1.1 ports. You can connect all kinds of peripheral devices to them.
Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports	0
Audio chip	VIA VT1708B
Power source type	ATX
Audio output channels	6.1 channels
Motherboard form factor	micro ATX
BIOS type	AMI
Maximum graphics card memory	512 MB
RAID levels	0, 1