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A85XM-A specications summary
APU AMD
®
FM2 socket for AMD
®
A-Series / Athlon™ processors
Supports CPU up to 4 cores
Microsoft
®
DirectX 11 support
AMD
®
Turbo Core Technology 3.0 support
• The AMD
®
Turbo Core Technology 3.0 support depends on the APU types.
• Refer to www.asus.com for the AMD
®
APU support list.
Chipset AMD
®
A85X FCH (Hudson D4)
Memory 2 x 240-pin DIMM slots support maximum 32GB unbuffered non-ECC
DDR3 1866/1600/1333/1066MHz memory modules
Dual-channel memory architecture
• The maximum 32GB memory capacity can be supported with 16GB or above
DIMMs. ASUS will update the memory QVL once the DIMMs are available in the
market.
• Refer to www.asus.com for the latest Memory QVL (Qualied Vendors List).
• When you install a total memory of 4GB capacity or more, Windows
®
32-bit
operation system may only recognize less than 3GB. We recommend a
maximum of 3GB system memory if you are using a Windows
®
32-bit operating
system.
Graphics Integrated AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series Graphics in A-Series APU
Multi-VGA output support: HDMI, DVI, D-Sub ports
- Supports HDMI with max. resolution of 1920x1080@60Hz
- Supports Dual-link DVI with max. resolution of 2560x1600@60Hz
- Supports D-Sub with max. resolution of 1920x1600@60Hz
- Supports Microsoft
®
DirectX 11
- Maximum shared memory of 2G
- Supports AMD
®
Dual Graphics technology
• Refer to http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/dual-graphics/Pages/
dual-graphics.aspx#3 for the discrete GPUs that support Dual Graphics
technology.
Expansion slots 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot
1 x PCI slot
Storage AMD
®
A85X FCH:
- 8 x Serial ATA 6 Gb/s connectors with RAID 0, RAID 1,RAID 5,RAID
10 and JBOD support
LAN
Realtek
®
8111F PCIe Gigabit LAN controller
Audio Realtek
®
ALC887 8-Channel High Denition Audio CODEC
• Use a chassis with HD audio module in the front panel to support an 8-channel
audio output.
USB AMD
®
A85X FCH:
- 4 x USB 3.0 ports* (2 ports at the back panel [blue], 2 ports at mid-
board)
- 6 x USB 2.0 ports (2 ports at the back panel, 4 ports at mid-board)
* Supports ASUS USB 3.0 Boost.