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Introducing the Motherboard
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the H61H2-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high
performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1155
socket for
latest Intel
®
Core
TM
Family/Pentium
®
/Celeron
®
processors
*
for high-end
business or personal desktop markets.
This motherboard is based on Intel
®
H61 Express Chipset for best desktop platform
solution. H61 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-Threading
peripheral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device controller. This
motherboard supports up to 16 GB of system memory with dual channel DDR3 1333/
1066 SDRAM. High resolution graphics via PCI Express x16 slot, intended for
Graphics Interface. In addition, two PCI Express slots are supported. It implements
an EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller Interface) compliant interface that provides
eight USB 2.0 ports (four USB 2.0 ports at the back panel and two USB 2.0 headers
support additional four USB 2.0 ports).
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard connectors, one DVI(HDMI Optional)
port, one D_sub (VGA) port, one Lan port, four USB 2.0 ports, and audio jacks for
microphone, line-in and line-out.
In addition, this motherboard supports four SATA 3Gb/s connectors for expansion.
*When accommodating Intel 3rd Generation CPU, the PCI Express 16X
slot can run at Gen3 speed, which accelerates on 32GB/s rate that
effectively delivers double of PCI Express Gen2 speed.