Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3 Motherboard
On Board Peripherals
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The AMD B350 chipset is a single-chip solution. This chip offers six SATA-600 ports, supporting RAID (0, 1, and 10). The motherboard comes with those six ports.
Figure 4: the six SATA-600 ports
The AMD B350 chipset supports six USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 (also called USB 3.1 Gen1) ports, and two USB 3.1 Gen2 ports. There are also four USB 3.0 ports controlled by the CPU.
The Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3 offers five USB 2.0 ports, one located at the rear panel (low-noise port) and four available through two headers located on the motherboard. There are six USB 3.0 ports, four on the rear panel and two available through a header. There are also two USB 3.1 ports (both Type A).
The Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3 does not support FireWire or Thunderbolt ports.
Figure 5 shows the audio section of the motherboard.
Figure 5: audio section
The portrayed motherboard has one Gigabit Ethernet port, controlled by a Realtek RTL8111G chip.
In Figure 6, you can see the motherboard rear panel with two USB 3.0 ports (blue,) a shared PS/2 keyboard/mouse connector, DVI-D output, HDMI output, one low-noise USB 2.0 port (black,) two USB 3.1 Type A ports (red,) two USB 3.0 ports (blue,) a Gigabit Ethernet port, optical SPDIF output, and the analog audio jacks.
Figure 6: motherboard rear panel
The Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3 has RGB (programmable) LEDs all around the motherboard. It also supports RGB LED ribbons.
In Figure 7, you can see the accessories that come with the Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3.
Figure 7: accessories