Asus M2N-MX SE PLUS Computer Hardware User Manual


 
ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS 1-3
NVIDIA
®
GeForce™ 6100 GPU
and NVIDIA
®
nForce™ 430 MCP chipsets
The NVIDIA
®
GeForce™ 6100 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Northbridge
supports Microsoft
®
DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, and PCI Express interface.
The NVIDIA
®
nForce™ 430 Media and Communications Processor (MCP)
Southbridge delivers NVIDIA
®
Gigabit and NVIDIA
®
MediaShield storage
management technology allowing easy RAID conguration (RAID 0, RAID 1, and
JBOD) for Serial ATA 3Gb/s.
DDR2 memory support
This motherboard supports DDR2 1066 memory which provides great performance
for 3D graphics and other memory demanding applications on the next generation
memory technology. See pages 1-13 to 1-16 for details.
PCI Express™ interface
The motherboard fully supports PCI Express, the latest I/O interconnect technology
that speeds up the PCI bus. PCI Express features point-to-point serial
interconnections between devices and allows higher clockspeeds by carrying data
in packets. This high speed interface is software compatible with existing PCI
specications. See page 1-20 for details.
Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology
The motherboard supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on the
new SATA 3Gb/s storage specication. The onboard NVIDIA
®
nForce 430 MCP
southbridge allows RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD congurations for four SATA
connectors.
AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology
This motherboard supports the AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology, which monitors
system operation and automatically adjusts CPU voltage and frequency for a cool
and quiet operating environment.