ECS Elitegroup A68F2P-M2 [5/60] Chapter 1 introducing the motherboard

A68F2P-M2 USER MANUAL

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the A68F2P-M2 motherboard. This motherboard is a high

performance, enhanced function motherboard that supports FM2+ socket for AMD

A series APU in the FM2/FM2+ package for business or personal desktop markets.

This motherboard is based on AMD FCH A68 (Bolton-D2) express chipset for best

desktop platform solution. It supports up to 16GB of system memory with dual

channel DDR3 2133(FM2+)*

1866(FM2)*

. One PCI Express x16 slot, intended for

Graphics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Gen3*

(version 3.0). In

addition, one PCI Express x1 slot and one PCI slot are supported.

It implements USB 2.0 interface, supporting up to six USB 2.0 ports (two USB 2.0 ports

at the rear panel and two USB 2.0 headers support additional four USB 2.0 ports) and

four USB 3.0 ports (two USB 3.0 ports at the rear panel and one USB 3.0 header

supports additional two USB 3.0 ports). This motherboard integrates a Serial ATA

host controller, supporting four SATA ports with maximum transfer rate up to 6Gb/s

each.

There is an full set of I/O ports in the rear panel, including PS/2 mouse and keyboard

connectors, one HDMI port, one D-sub (VGA) port, two USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0

ports, one LAN port, three audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6-ch line-out.

Your motherboard package ships with the following items:

Package Contents

A68F2P-M2 Motherboard

Quick Installation Guide

User Manual

DVD

I/O Shield

2 SATA 6Gb/s Cables

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The package contents above are for reference only, please take the actual

package items as standard.

Due to the limitation of chipset spec, it supports up to 2133/1866 MHz, 1.5

V memory with a single DIMM per channel.

FM2+ supports PCI Express Gen3, FM2 supports PCI Express Gen2.