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ASUS P5Q-VM 1-3
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/packagings to safeguard
consumers’ health while minimizing the impact on the environment.
Intel
®
Core™2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad / Core™2 Duo
Processor Support
This motherboard supports the latest Intel
®
Core™2 processors in LGA775
package. It can also support Intel
®
45nm multi-core CPUs. With new Intel
®
Core™
microarchitecture technology and 1600/1333/1066/800MHz FSB, Intel
®
Core™2
processor is one of the most powerful and energy efcient CPUs in the world.
Intel
®
G45 Chipset
The Intel
®
G45 Express Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support dual-
channel DDR2 800/667 architecture, 1333/1066/800 FSB (Front Side Bus), PCIe
2.0, and multi-core CPUs. It provides digital home entertainment of full 1080p high-
denition video playback, including Blu-ray disc movies, with the next-generation
Intel
®
Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD. The Intel
®
G45 Express Chipset
delivers optimized 3D graphics performance and support for Microsoft DirectX
10, Shader Model 4.0 and OpenGL 2.1. It especially includes Intel
®
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. See page 1-27 for details.See page 1-27 for details.
Serial ATA 3 Gb/s technology
This motherboard supports hard drives based on the Serial ATA (SATA) 3 Gb/s
storage specication, delivering enhanced scalability and doubling the bus
bandwidth for high-speed data retrieval and saves. See page 1-36 for details.See page 1-36 for details.