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1-2 Chapter 1: Product Introduction
1.3 Special features
1.3.1 Product highlights
Green ASUS
This motherboard and its packaging comply with the European Union’s Restriction
on the use of Hazardous Substances (RoHS). This is in line with the ASUS vision
of creating environment-friendly and recyclable products/packaging to safeguard
consumers’ health while minimizing the impact on the environment.
Intel
®
Quad-core Processor Ready
This motherboard supports the latest Intel
®
Quad-core processors in the LGA775
package. With 1066 / 800 MHz FSB, the latest Intel
®
Quad-core technology
provides faster and more powerful performance for multi-tasking, multimedia
applications, and 3-D online gaming. This motherboard also supports Intel
®
CPUs in
the new 45 nm manufacturing process.
Intel
®
Core™2 Duo/ Intel
®
Core™2 Extreme CPU support
This motherboard supports the latest Intel
®
Core™2 Duo and Intel
®
Core™2
Extreme Quad-core processors in the LGA775 package. With the new Intel
®
Core™
micro-architecture technology and 1333/ 1066 / 800 MHz FSB, these two Quad-
core processors provide the users with a more powerful experience in multi-tasking
and multi-threaded performance across many application types and workloads.
Intel P35 Chipset
The Intel
®
P35 Express Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support 8GB of
dual-channel DDR2 800/667/533 architecture, 1333/1066/800 FSB, PCI Express
x16 graphics, and multi-core CPU. It especially includes Intel
®
Fast Memory Access
technology that signicantly optimizes the use of available memory bandwidth and
reduces the latency of the memory accesses.
DDR2 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory that features data transfer rates
of 800/667/533 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the latest
3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The dual-channel DDR2
architecture doubles the bandwidth of your system memory to boost system
performance. Furthermore, this motherboard does not restrict the memory size
across two channels. Users may install different memory size DIMMs into the two
channels and enjoy dual-channel and single-channel functions at the same time.
This new feature optimizes the use of available memory size. See page 2-13 for
details.