Gigabyte Motherboard GA-P61-USB3-B3

Supports Intel new B3 stepping 6 series chipset

Supports for LGA1155 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors

Next Gen. Quality Components and 4 Phase CPU Power design

Industry's Leading Japanese Solid Capacitor Motherboard Design

Supports USB 3.0 with superfast transfer rates of up to 5 Gbps

Better device compatibility with 3x USB power

Innovative Smart 6 technology for smarter PC management

Hi-def 108dB Signal-to-noise ratio Blu-ray™ DVD audio playback

DualBIOS™ protection with 3TB+ HDD boot up capability

CPU:

Support for Intel® Core™ i7 processors/Intel® Core™ i5 processors/ Intel® Core™ i3 processors/Intel® Pentium® processors/Intel® Celeron® processors in the LGA1155 package

L3 cache varies with CPU

Chipset:

Intel® H61 Express Chipset

Memory:

2 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 16 GB of system memory

* Due to 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 4 GB.

Dual channel memory architecture

Support for DDR3 1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules

Support for non-ECC memory modules

Audio:

Realtek ALC889 codec

High Definition Audio

2/4/5.1/7.1-channel

* To configure 7.1-channel audio, you need connect with the port of HD Audio standard via front panel and enable the multi-channel audio feature through the audio driver.

Support for S/PDIF Out

LAN:

1 x Realtek RTL8111E chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)

Expansion Slots

1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16

2 x PCI Express x1 slots

(All PCI Express slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)

3 x PCI slots

Storage Interface Chipset:

4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATA2_0~SATA2_3) supporting up to 4 SATA 3Gb/s devices

USB Chipset:

Up to 8 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 on the back panel, 4 via the USB brackets connected to the internal USB headers)

Etron EJ168 chip:

Up to 2 USB 3.0/2.0 ports on the back panel

Internal I/O Connectors:

1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector

1 x 4-pin ATX 12V power connector

4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors

1 x CPU fan header

2 x system fan headers

1 x power fan header

1 x front panel header

1 x front panel audio header

1 x S/PDIF Out header

2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers

1 x clearing CMOS jumper

Back Panel Connectors:

1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port

1 x parallel port

1 x serial port

1 x coaxial S/PDIF Out connector

4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports

2 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports

1 x RJ-45 port

3 x audio jacks (Line In/Line Out/Microphone)

I/O Controller:

iTE IT8728 chip

H/W Monitoring:

System voltage detection

CPU/System temperature detection

CPU/System/Power fan speed detection

CPU overheating warning

CPU/System/Power fan fail warning

CPU/System fan speed control

* Whether the CPU/system fan speed control function is supported will depend on the CPU/system cooler you install.

BIOS:

2 x 32 Mbit flash

Use of licensed AWARD BIOS

Support for DualBIOS™

PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.4, ACPI 1.0b

Unique Features:

Support for @BIOS

Support for Q-Flash

Support for Xpress BIOS Rescue

Support for Download Center

Support for Xpress Install

Support for Xpress Recovery2

Support for EasyTune

* Available functions in EasyTune may differ by motherboard model.

Support for Easy Energy Saver

Support for Smart 6™

Support for Auto Green

Support for ON/OFF Charge

Support for Cloud OC

Support for Q-Share

Bundle Software:

Norton Internet Security (OEM version)

Operating System:

Support for Microsoft® Windows 8/7/Vista/XP

Form Factor:

ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 19.0cm