1.3Central Processing Unit (CPU)

This motherboard comes with a 940-pin AM2+ / AM2 socket designed for AMD® Phenom™FX / Phenom™ / Athlon™ / Sempron™ processors.

The AM2+ / AM2 socket has a different pinout from the 940-pin socket designed for the AMD Opteron™ processor. Use a CPU that is designed for the AM2+ / AM2 socket.

1.4System memory

1.4.1Overview

This motherboard comes with two Double Data Rate 2 (DDR2) Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMM) sockets. A DDR2 DIMM has the same physical dimensions as a DDR DIMM but has a 240-pin footprint compared to the 184-pin DDR DIMM. DDR2 DIMMs are notched differently to prevent installation on a DDR DIMM socket.The figure illustrates the location of the DDR2 DIMM sockets:

Channel

Sockets

Channel A

DIMM_A1

Channel B

DIMM_B1

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Chapter 1: Product introduction