1-2 Chapter 1: Product Introduction
1.3 Special features
1.3.1 Product highlights
Green ASUS
of creating environment-friendly and recyclable products/packaging to safeguard
AMD
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Socket AM2+ Phenom™ FX / Phenom /
Athlon™ / Sempron™ CPU support
This motherboard supports AMD AMD
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Socket AM2+ multi-core processors with
unique L3 cache and delivers better overclocking capabilities with less power
consumption. It features dual-channel DDR2 1066 memory support and
accelerates data transfer rate up to 5200MT/s via HyperTransport™ 3.0 based
system bus. See page 2-6 for details.
HyperTransport™ 3.0 support
HyperTransport™ 3.0 technology provides 2.6 times more bandwidth than
faster computing environment.
AMD
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Socket AM2 Athlon™ 64 X2 / Athlon™Athlon™
64 FX / Athlon™ 64 / Sempron™ CPU support
This motherboard supports AMDAMD
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Socket AM2 single-core Athlon™ 64 /
Sempron™ and dual-core Athlon™ 64 X2 / Athlon™ 64 FX processors with 2MB
/ 1MB / 512KB L2 cache based on 64-bit architecture. It features 2000 / 1600
MT/s HyperTransport™-based system bus, dual-channel un-buffered DDR2 800
memory support, and AMD
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NVIDIA
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nForce
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780a SLI chipset
The NVIDIA
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nForce 780a SLI chipset supports the NVIDIA
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Scalable Link
Interface (SLI™) technology that allows three graphics processing units (GPUs)
fastest platform in the world. The NVIDIA
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nForce 780a SLI chipset also supports
six (6) Serial ATA 3 Gb/s devices, PCI Express™ x16 slots with NVIDIA
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SLI
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support at dual x16 mode or at tripple x8 mode, and up to 10 USB 2.0 ports.