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Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the H57D02 motherboard. This motherboard is a high performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1156 socket for 2nd Generation IntelR CoreTM Family/PentiumR/CeleronR processors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
This motherboard is based on IntelR H57 Chipset for best desktop platform solution. H57 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. Two PCI are supported, fully compliant with PCI rev 2.2 specification at 33MHz. High resolution graphics via PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 2.0. In addition, one PCI Express slot is supported. It implements an EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller Interface) compliant interface that provides fourteen USB 2.0 ports (six USB 2.0 ports at the back panel and four USB 2.0 headers support additional eight 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 HDMI port, one D_sub (VGA) port, one Lan port, six USB 2.0 ports, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out. In addition, this motherboard supports two SATA 6Gb/s connectors .
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