Instruction Manual

Chapter 1: Introduction

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Motherboard Features

CPU

• Quad AMD Opteron 6000 series (AMD Socket G34 type) processors

Note: You must install at least two processors for full functions to be supported.

Memory

• Thirty-Two (32) single/dual/tri/quad channel DIMM slots supporting up to 256 GB of

ECC/Non-ECC UDIMM or up to 1 TB of ECC RDIMM DDR3-1600/1333/1066 Mhz

speed, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB or 32 GB size SDRAM at 1.35V or

1.5V voltages

Note: Refer to Section 2-4 before installing memory and our web site for recommended DIMMs.

Chipset

• One AMD SR5690 and one SP5100 Southbridge chipsets

Expansion Slots

• One (1) PCI-Express x16 Gen. 2

BIOS

• 16 Mb AMI BIOS® SPI Flash ROM

• APM 1.2, DMI 2.3, PCI 2.2, ACPI 1.0 (ACPI 2.0 is BIOS supported), SMBIOS

2.3, Real Time Clock Wakeup, Plug and Play (PnP), BIOS resume hot keys,

PC Health Monitoring

• Onboard voltage monitors

• Fan status monitor with ﬁ rmware/software on/off and speed control

• Watch Dog

• Environmental temperature monitoring via BIOS

• Power-up mode control for recovery from AC power loss

• System resource alert (via included utility program)

• Auto-switching voltage regulator for the CPU core

• CPU thermal trip support

• I

C temperature sensing logic