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
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Core™ 2 Quad Processor ready
This motherboard supports the latest Intel
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Core™ 2 Quad processors in the
LGA775 package and Intel’s next-generation 45nm multi-core processors.
It is excellent for multi-tasking, multi-media and enthusiastic gamers with
1333/1066/800 MHz FSB. Intel
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Core™ 2 Quad processor is one of the most
powerful CPU in the world. See page 2-9 for details.
Intel
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Core™2 Duo/ Intel
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Core™2 Extreme CPU support
This motherboard supports the latest Intel
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Core™2 processor in the LGA775
package and Intel’s next-generation 45nm multi-core processors. With the new
Intel
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Core™ microarchitecture technology and 1333/1066/800 MHz FSB, the
Intel
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Core™2 is one of the most powerful and energy efcient CPUs in the world.
See page 2-9 for details.
Intel
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X38 Chipset
The Intel
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X38 Express Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support 8GB of
dual-channel DDR2 800/667 MHz memory architecture, 1333/1066/800 FSB (Front
Side Bus), dual PCI Express 2.0 x16 graphics and multi-core CPUs. It especially
includes Intel
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Fast Memory Access technology that signicantly optimizes the use
of available memory bandwidth and reduces the latency of the memory accesses.
PCIe 2.0
This motherboard supports the latest PCIe 2.0 device for twice the current speed
and bandwidth. This enhances system performance while still providing backward
compatibility to PCIe 1.0 devices.