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Introducing the Motherboard

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing P67H2-A motherboard. This motherboard is a high per-

formance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1155 socket

for 2

Generation Intel

Core

Family & Unlock processors to reach the optimum

system performance. Combined with ECS unique M.I.B X* BIOS interface, it

makes a simple, fast and safe O.C platform for high-end business or personal

desktop market.

This motherboard is based on Intel

P67 Chipset for best desktop platform solution.

P67 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-Threading periph-

eral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device controller. This

motherboard supports up to 16 GB of system memory with dual channel DDR3

2133(OC)/1866(OC)/1600(OC)/1333/1066 SDRAM. It cooperates with LT24102

chips to generate three of PCIe 16X Gen 2 graphic interface, that allows you install

up to three non-identical graphic cards with multiple GPU running at PCIe Gen 2

speed. It provides two PCI rev 2.3 slots and two PCI Express x1 rev 2.0 slots for

extending usage. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that provides fourteen

USB 2.0 ports (six USB ports and four USB 2.0 headers support additional eight USB

ports and one of Front USB 2.0 headers provide with EZ charger technology, please

reference chapter 2 parts of Front Panel USB headers to check the detail informa-

tion). P67H2-A implements extra USB 3.0 chips which provide four USB3.0 ports at

rear I/O with blue connector and one USB 3.0 header at internal I/O also.

P67H-A implements extra Marvell 88SE9128 SATA 6Gb/s chips, which provide

two eSATA 6Gb/s ports with RAID 0, 1 configuration, this motherboard delivers

the highest data transfer rate to fulfill the most speed-demanding usage.

The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,

including one PS/2 mouse and keyboard combo connector, one CLR_CMOS button,

two eSATA 6Gb/s ports, two Gigabit LAN ports, six USB 2.0 ports, four USB 3.0

ports running at 5 Gb/s, one optical SPDIFO port and audio jacks for microphone,

line-in and 8-ch line-out.

In addition, this motherboard comes with a power button and a reset button.

* ECS M.I.B X stands for extreme O.C BIOS interface. Please refer to

chapter 3 for detailed setup information.