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Package contents
Check your motherboard package for the following items.
Motherboard ASUS A88XM-A motherboard
Cables 2 x Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s cables
Accessories 1 x I/O Shield
Application DVD Support DVD
Documentation User Guide
If any of the above items is damaged or missing, contact your retailer.
A88XM-A specications summary
APU AMD
®
FM2+ socket for AMD
®
A-Series / Athlon™ processors
Supports CPU up to 4 cores
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
®
A88X FCH
Memory 4 x 240-pin DIMM slots support maximum 64GB unbuffered non-ECC
DDR3 2133(O.C.)/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules
Dual-channel memory architecture
• The maximum 64GB 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 8000/7000 Series Graphics in A-Series APU
Multi-VGA output support: HDMI, DVI, D-Sub ports
- Supports HDMI with max. resolution of 1920x1200@60Hz
- Supports Dual-link DVI with max. resolution of 2560x1600@60Hz
- Supports D-Sub with max. resolution of 1920x1600@60Hz
- 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 3.0/2.0 x16 slot*
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot
1 x PCI slot
* Only FM2+ processors can support PCIe 3.0.