Supports AMD AM3+ FX / AM3 Phenom™ II Athlon™ II series Processors
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Technology
GIGABYTE Digital Power Engine
8+2 phase CPU VRM power design for AMD high-TDP CPU support
GIGABYTE UEFI DualBIOS™
2-way CrossFire™/ SLI™ Support
Realtek ALC889 with High Quality 108dB SNR HD audio
Supports Dolby Home Theater audio
GIGABYTE On/Off Charge™ for USB devices
4 USB 3.0 ports with GIGABYTE 3X USB power
6 SATA3 and 2 eSATA3 ports with RAID support
LAN with high ESD Protection
CPU AM3+ Socket:
AMD AM3+ FX processors
AMD AM3 Phenom™ II processor/ AMD Athlon™ II processor
(Please refer "CPU Support List" for more information.)
Hyper Transport Bus
5200 MT/s
Chipset
North Bridge: AMD 990FX
South Bridge: AMD SB950
Memory
4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 32 GB of system memory (Note 1)
Dual channel memory architecture
Support for DDR3 2000(O.C.)/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules (Note 2)
Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules
(Please refer "Memory Support List" for more information.)
Audio
Realtek® ALC889 codec
High Definition Audio
2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
Support for Dolby® Home Theater®
Support for S/PDIF Out
LAN
Realtek® GbE LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)
Expansion Slots
2 x PCI Express x16 slots running at x16 (PCIEX16_1 PCIEX16_2) (Note 3)
2 x PCI Express x16 slots running at x4 (PCIEX4_1 PCIEX4_2)
2 x PCI Express x1 slots
(All PCI Express slots conform to the PCI Express 2.0 standard.)
1 x PCI slot
Multi-Graphics Technology
Support for 2-Way AMD CrossFire™/NVIDIA® SLI™ technology (PCIEX16_1 and PCIEX16_2)
Storage Interface South Bridge:
6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (SATA3 0~5) supporting up to 6 SATA 6Gb/s devices
Support for RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 and JBOD
Marvell® 88SE9172 chip:
2 x eSATA 6Gb/s connectors on the back panel supporting up to 2 SATA 6Gb/s devices (Note 4)
Support for RAID 0 and RAID 1
USB Chipset:
Up to 14 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (8 ports on the back panel 6 ports available through the internal USB headers)
VIA® VL805 chip:
Up to 4 USB 3.0/2.0 ports (2 ports on the back panel 2 ports available through the internal USB header)
IEEE 1394 VIA® VT6308 chip:
Up to 2 IEEE 1394a ports (1 port on the back panel 1 port available through the internal IEEE 1394a headers)
Internal I/O Connectors
1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
1 x CPU fan header
2 x system fan headers
1 x power fan header
1 x front panel header
1 x front panel audio header
1 x S/PDIF Out header
1 x USB 3.0/2.0 header
3 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
1 x IEEE 1394a port
1 x serial port header
1 x Clear CMOS jumper
1 x Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header
Back Panel Connectors
1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port
1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
1 x IEEE 1394a port
2 x eSATA 6Gb/s connectors
8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
2 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports
1 x RJ-45 port
6 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/Side Speaker Out/Line In/Line Out/Mic In)
I/O Controller
iTE® I/O Controller Chip
H/W Monitoring
System voltage detection
CPU/System temperature detection
CPU/System/Power fan speed detection
CPU overheating warning
CPU/System/Power fan fail warning
CPU/System fan speed control (Note 5)
BIOS
2 x 32 Mbit flash
Use of licensed AMI EFI BIOS
Support for DualBIOS™
PnP 1.0a DMI 2.0 SM BIOS 2.6 ACPI 2.0a
Unique Features
Support for @BIOS
Support for Q-Flash
Support for Xpress Install
Support for EasyTune (Note 6)
Support for Smart Recovery 2
Support for ON/OFF Charge
Bundle Software
Norton® Internet Security (OEM version)
Operating System
Support for Microsoft® Windows 8/7/Vista/XP
Form Factor
ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 24.4cm
Note (Note 1) Due to a Windows 32-bit operating system limitation when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed the actual memory size displayed will be less than the size of the physical memory installed.

(Note 2) To support a DDR3 1866 MHz (and above) memory you must install an AM3+ CPU first.

(Note 3) For optimum performance if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed be sure to install it in the PCIEX16_1 slot; if you are installing two PCI Express graphics cards it is recommended that you install them in the PCIEX16_1 and PCIEX16_2 slots.

(Note 4) Actual transfer rate is dependent on the device being connected.

(Note 5) Whether the fan speed control function is supported will depend on the cooler you install.

(Note 6) Available functions in EasyTune may differ by motherboard model.
Remark
Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors please download Linux driver from chipset vendors' website or 3rd party website.
Most hardware/software vendors may no longer offer drivers to support Win9X/ME/2000/XP SP1/SP2. If drivers are available from the vendors we will update them on the GIGABYTE website.

Date Added
28th Jul 14