Asus F2A55MCSM Computer Hardware User Manual


 
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F2A55-M specications summary
APU 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.
Chipset AMD® A55 FCH(Hudson D2)
Memory 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, un-
buffered 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 (Qualied Vendors List).
Graphics 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
Expansion slots 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)
Storage
AMD
®
A55 FCH:
- 6 x Serial ATA 3Gb/s connectors (blue) with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10
and JBOD support
LAN
Realtek
®
8111F Gigabit LAN controller
Audio Realtek
®
ALC887 8-Channel High Denition 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