Chapter1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Thank you for choosing the H57H-AM2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high performance,
enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1156 socket for Intel® Lynnfield /Havendale/Clarkdale processors for high-end business or personal desktop markets.
This motherboard is based on Intel® H57 Express Chipset for best desktop platform solution. The 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 MHz. One PCI slot is supported, fully compliant with PCI rev 2.3 specification at 33MHz. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express slot, intended for Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 2.0. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides twelve USB 2.0 ports (four USB ports and four USB 2.0 headers support additional eight USB ports).
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, one VGA port, one LAN port, four USB ports, and audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out.
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