Asus m5a97 plus [6/66] M5a97 plus specifications summary

M5A97 PLUS specications summary

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Package contents

Check your motherboard package for the following items.

Motherboard ASUS M5A97 PLUS 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.

APU AMD

AM3+ socket for AMD

FX™/Phenom™ II/Athlon™ II/Sempron™

100 series processors

Support AMD

Cool n Quiet™ Technology

Supports CPU up to 140W

• Refer to www.asus.com for the AMD

CPU support list.

Chipset AMD

970/SB950

System Bus Up to 5200 MT/s HyperTransport™ 3.0

Memory 4 x DIMM slots support maximum 32GB unbuffered ECC and non-ECC

DDR3 2133(O.C.)/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules

Dual-channel memory architecture

• Due to OS limitation, 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.

• AMD

FX Series CPU on this motherboard supports up to DDR3 1866MHz as its

standard memory frequency.

• AMD AM3 100 and 200 series CPU support up to DDR3 1066MHz.

• Refer to www.asus.com for the latest Memory QVL (Qualied Vendors List).

Expansion slots 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slot

2 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots

3 x PCI slots

Storage 6 x Serial ATA 6 Gb/s connectors with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10

and JBOD support

LAN RTL8111F PCIe Gb LAN

Audio ALC887 7.1-Channel Audio CODEC

USB 14 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (6 ports at mid-board, 8 ports at rear panel)