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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 Processor Ready
This motherboard supports the latest Intel
®
Core™2 processor in the LGA775
package. With the new Intel
®
Core™ microarchitecture technology and 1066 / 800
MHz FSB, the Intel
®
Core™2 processor is one of the most powerful and energy
efcient CPUs in the world. See page 2-7 for details.
NVIDIA
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Scalable Link Interface (SLI™)
The NVIDIA
®
Scalable Link Interface (SLI™) technology allows two graphics
processing units (GPUs) in a single system. This technology takes advantage of
the PCI Express™ bus architecture and features intelligent hardware and software
solutions that allows multiple GPUs to work together and achieve exceptional
graphics performance.
NVIDIA
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nForce
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590 SLI™ Intel
®
Edition
The NVIDIA
®
nForce
®
590 SLI™ chipset supports the
NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface(SLI™) technology that
allows two graphics processing units(GPUs) in a single
system. This technology takes advantage of the PCI Express™ bus architecture
and features intelligent hardware and software solutions that allow multiple GPUs
to work together and achieve exceptional graphics performance.
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, eliminating bottlenecks with peak bandwidths of up to 12.8 GB/s.
See page 2-15 for details.