Asus P5N7A-VM Computer Hardware User Manual


 
1-4 Chapter 1: Product Introduction
Due to chipset limitation, DisplayPort on this motherboard only supports video
signals.
DisplayPort
This motherboard introduces the new digital display interface standard -
DisplayPort. This new design features a small and user-friendly connector. It
delivers higher performances of resolution, refresh rate, and color depth and
improves digital display connectivity. See page 1-30 for details.
PCI Express 2.0 support
The motherboard supports the latest PCI Express 2.0 devices for double speed
and bandwidth which enhances system performance.See page 1-26 for details.
Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology
The motherboard supports SATA hard drives based on the new SATA 3Gb/s
storage specication. It allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 0+1, and JBOD
congurations for ve SATA connectors.
Multi-VGA output
This motherboard supports multiple digital and analog display output interfaces
- HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort, and D-Sub. With such diversity of display outputs, you
are able to choose and upgrade display devices freely.
S/PDIF digital sound ready
This motherboard provides convenient connectivity to external home theater audio
systems via optical S/PDIF-out (SONY-PHILIPS Digital Interface) jacks.It allows to
transfer digital audio without converting to analog format and keeps the best signal
quality. See pages 1-28 for details.
High Denition Audio
Enjoy high-end sound quality on your PC! The onboard 8-channel High Denition
Audio CODEC enables high-quality 192KHz/24-bit audio output, jack-sensing
feature, and multi-streaming technology that simultaneously sends different
audio streams to different destinations. You can now talk to your partners on the
headphone while playing multi-channel network games. See pages 1-28 and 1-29
for details.