F2A55-M specifications summary

APU

Chipset Memory

AMD® FM2 socket for AMD® A-series/ Athlon™ Series processors Supports CPU up to 4 CPU cores

AMD® Turbo Core Technology 3.0 support

*The AMD® Turbo Core Technology 3.0 Support depends on the APU types.

AMD® A55 FCH(Hudson D2)

4 x DIMMs, max. 64GB, DDR3 2400(O.C.)/ 2250(O.C.) /2200(O.C.) / 2133(O.C.) /2000(O.C.) /1866 /1600 /1333/1066 MHz, non-ECC, unbuffered memory

Dual-channel memory architecture

*Due to OS limitation, when installing total memory of 4GB capacity or more,

Windows® 32-bit operation system may only recognize less than 3GB. Hence, a total installed memory of less than 3GB is recommended.

**The Max. 64GB memory capacity can be supported with DIMMs of 8GB (or above). ASUS will update QVL once the DIMMs are available on the market.

***Refer to www.asus.com for the latest Memory QVL (Qualified Vendors List).

Graphics

Expansion slots

Storage

Integrated AMD® Radeon™ HD 7000 Series Graphics in A-series APU Multi-VGA output support: HDMI / DVI / D-Sub port

-Supports HDMI with max. resolution 1920x1080@60Hz

-Supports Dual-link DVI with max. resolution 2560x1600@60Hz

-Supports D-Sub with max. resolution 1920x1600@60Hz

-Supports Microsoft® DirectX 11

-Maximum shared memory of 2G

-Supports AMD® Dual Graphics technology

*Refer to www.amd.com for the discrete GPUs which support Dual Graphics technology

2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (blue @ x16 mode, black @ x4 mode) 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot

1 x PCI slot

Supports AMD CrossFireX™ Technology (x16 & x4)

AMD® A55 FCH:

-6 x Serial ATA 3Gb/s connectors (blue) with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and JBOD support

LAN

Audio

Realtek® 8111F Gigabit LAN controller

Realtek® ALC887 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC

-Supports Jack-Detection, Multi-streaming, Front Panel Jack-Retasking

-Optical S/PDIF out port at back I/O

USB

AMD® A55 FCH:

 

- 10 x USB2.0 ports (4 ports at back panel, 6 ports at mid-board)

ASMedia USB3.0 Controller:

-2 x USB3.0 /2.0 ports at back panel (continued on the next page)

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