ECS Elitegroup P67H2-A3 [5/80] Chapter 1 introducing the motherboard

Introducing the Motherboard

Chapter 1

Introducing the Motherboard

Introduction

Thank you for choosing P67H2-A3 motherboard. This motherboard is a high

performance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1155

socket for 2

Generation Intel

Core

Family & Unlock processors to reach the

optimum system performance 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)/1800(OC)/1600/1333/1066 SDRAM. It supports two* PCIe x16 Gen 2

graphic interface, that allows you install up to two graphic cards with multiple GPU

running at PCIe Gen 2 speed. It provides two PCI rev 2.2 slots and one PCI Express

x1 rev 2.0 slot for extending usage. It implements an EHCI compliant interface that

provides twelve USB 2.0 ports (six rear I/O ports and three headers support addi-

tional six USB ports and one of Front USB 2.0 headers provide EZ charger technol-

ogy, please reference chapter 2 parts of Front Panel USB headers to check the detail

information). P67H2-A3 implements extra optional USB 3.0 chip which provide

two USB3.0 ports at rear I/O with blue connectors also.

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,

one LAN port, six USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports running at 5 Gb/s (optional),

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.

*One PCIe x16 runs at PCIe x4 bandwith.