ASRock Q2900M Motherboard
On Board Peripherals
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The Pentium J2900 CPU supports two SATA-300 ports, and the ASRock Q2900M motherboard brings only those two ports, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: SATA ports
The Pentium J2900 CPU supports six USB 2.0 ports and one USB 3.0 port. The ASRock Q2900M offers six USB 2.0 ports, three at the rear panel and three available through two headers located on the motherboard, and one USB 3.0 port at the rear panel.
The motherboard does not support FireWire or Thunderbolt ports. It has, however, legacy serial an parallel ports, but you need to buy adapters in order to use those ports.
The motherboard supports 5.1 audio format, generated by the processor with the aid of a Realtek ALC662 codec, which offers a signal/noise ratio (SNR) of 98 dB for the analog outputs and 90 dB SNR for the analog inputs, with 24 bit resolution and up to 96 kHz sampling rate. These specifications are reasonable for the market this motherboard is targeted.
The portrayed motherboard has one Gigabit Ethernet port controlled by a Realtek RTL8111GR chip.
In Figure 6, you can see the motherboard rear panel with two PS/2 connectors for keyboard and mouse, VGA output, DVI-D output, three USB 2.0 ports, HDMI output, one USB 3.0 port, Gigabit Ethernet port, and the shared 5.1 analog audio jacks.
Figure 5: motherboard rear panel