Mainboard GA-H61M-DS2

1. Support for Intel^® Core™ i7 processors/Intel^® Core™ i5 processors/ Intel^® Core™ i3 processors/Intel^® Pentium^®processors/Intel^® Celeron^® processors in the LGA1155 package
2. L3 cache varies with CPU

(Some Intel^® Core™ processors require a graphic card, please refer “CPU support List” for more information.)

1. Intel^® H61 Express Chipset

1. 1. 2 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 16 GB of system memory
      * Due to a Windows 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than the size of the physical memory installed.

1. 1. Dual channel memory architecture

1. 1. Support for DDR3 2200(OC)/1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules

1. 1. Support for non-ECC memory modules

1. Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules
   * To support XMP memory, you must install an Intel 22nm (Ivy Bridge) CPU.

(Please refer “Memory Support List” for more information.)

1. 1 x D-Sub port

1. Realtek ALC887 codec
2. High Definition Audio
3. 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
   * To configure 7.1-channel audio, you have to use an HD front panel audio module and enable the multi-channel audio feature through the audio driver.

1. Realtek GbE LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)

1. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16
   (The PCI Express x16 slot conforms to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)
   * Whether PCI Express 3.0 is supported depends on CPU and graphics card compatibility.
2. 2 x PCI Express x1 slots
   (All PCI Express x1 slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)

1. 4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors supporting up to 4 SATA 3Gb/s devices

1. Up to 8 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB headers)

1. 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
2. 1 x 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
3. 4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors
4. 1 x CPU fan header
5. 1 x system fan header
6. 1 x front panel header
7. 1 x front panel audio header
8. 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
9. 1 x Clear CMOS jumper

1. 1 x PS/2 keyboard port
2. 1 x PS/2 mouse port
3. 1 x D-Sub port
4. 1 x parallel port
5. 1 x serial port
6. 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
7. 1 x RJ-45 port
8. 3 x audio jacks (Line In/Line Out/Microphone)

1. iTE I/O Controller Chip

1. System voltage detection
2. CPU/System temperature detection
3. CPU/System fan speed detection
4. CPU/System fan speed control
   * Whether the CPU/System fan speed control function is supported will depend on the CPU/System cooler you install.

1. 2 x 32 Mbit flash
2. Use of licensed AMI EFI BIOS
3. Support for DualBIOS™
4. PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.6, ACPI 2.0a

1. Support for @BIOS
2. Support for Q-Flash
3. Support for EasyTune
   * Available functions in EasyTune may differ by motherboard model.
4. Support for ON/OFF Charge

1. Norton Internet Security (OEM version)

1. Support for Microsoft^® Windows 8/7/Vista/XP

1. Micro ATX Form Factor; 22.6cm x 17.4cm

1. Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors, please download Linux driver from chipset vendors’ website or 3rd party website.
2. Most hardware/software vendors may no longer offer drivers to support Win9X/ME/2000/XP SP1/SP2. If drivers are available from the vendors, we will update them on the GIGABYTE website.