Asus P5ND2 Personal Computer User Manual


 
ASUS P5ND2 1-3
1.3 Special features
1.3.1 Product highlights
Latest processor technology
The motherboard comes with a 775-pin surface mount Land Grid Array (LGA)
socket designed for the Intel
®
Pentium
®
D, Intel
®
Pentium
®
4, and Intel
®
Celeron
®
processors in the 775-land package. The motherboard supports
Intel
®
processors with 800/533 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB). The motherboard
also supports the Intel
®
Hyper-Threading Technology, Intel
®
Dual-Core
Technology and is fully compatible with Intel
®
05B/05A and 04B/04A
processors. See page 1-9 for details.
Intel
®
Dual-Core Technology CPU support
The motherboard supports dual-core processors containing two physical
CPU cores with dedicated L2 caches to meet demands for more powerful
processing.
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep
®
Technology (EIST)
The Enhanced Intel SpeedStep
®
Technology (EIST) intelligently manages
the CPU resources by automatically adjusting the CPU voltage and core
frequency depending on the CPU loading and system speed or power
requirement.
Dual-channel DDR2 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory for exible system upgrade and
to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the latest 3D graphics,
multimedia, and Internet applications. The dual-channel architecture allows
memory bandwidths of up to 8.5 GB/s for DDR2. See page 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 pages 1-23 for details.