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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
®
Core™2 / Quad-core 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 is one of the most powerful and energy efcient
CPUs in the world. This motherboard also supports the latest Intel
®
Quad-core
processor, which is excellent for multi-tasking, multi-media and enthusiastic
gamers with 1066 / 800 MHz FSB. See page 2-7 for details.
NVIDIA
®
nForce
®
Dual PCI Express™ x16 Graphics chipset
The NVIDIA
®
Dual PCI Express™ x16 chipset allows two graphics processing
units (GPUs) in a single system. It’s designed for enthusiast, extreme overclocking
capability, ultimate gaming performance. It’s denitely one of the fastest platform in
the world. See Chapter 6 for details. The NVIDIA
®
PCI Express™ x16 chipset also
supports six (6) Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s devices, dual PCI Express™ x16 slots at full
x16, x16 mode, and up to 10 USB 2.0 ports.
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 2-14 for details.