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1-2 Chapter 1: Product Introduction
Chapter 1
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
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Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition / Core™ i7 Processor support
This motherboard supports the latest Intel
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Core™ i7 processors in LGA1366 package with
integrated memory controller to support 3-channel (6 DIMMs) DDR3 memory. Supports Intel
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QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) with a system bus of up to 6.4GT/s and a max bandwidth of
up to 25.6GB/s. Intel
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Core™ i7 processor is one of the most powerful and energy efcient
CPUs in the world. See page 2-5 for details.
Intel
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X58 Chipset
The Intel
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X58 Express Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support latest Intel
®
Core™
i7 Processors and Intel’s next generation system interconnect interface, Intel
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QuickPath
Interconnect (QPI), providing improved performance by utilizing serial point-to-point links,
allowing increased bandwidth and stability. It also supports up to 36 PCI Express 2.0 lanes
providing better graphics performance.
Triple-Channel DDR3 2000(O.C.) / 1866(O.C.) / 1800(O.C.) / 1600(O.C.) / 1333 /
1066 support
The motherboard supports DDR3 memory that features data transfer rates of 2000(O.C.)
/ 1866(O.C.) / 1800(O.C.) / 1600(O.C.) /1333 / 1066 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth
requirements of the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The triple-
channel DDR3 architecture enlarges the bandwidth of your system memory to boost system
performance. See page 2-10 for details.
ATI
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Quad-GPU CrossFireX™ Technology
ATI’s CrossFireX™ boosts image quality along with rendering speed, eliminating the
need to scale down screen resolution to get high quality images. CrossFireX™ allows
higher antialiasing, anisotropic ltering, shading, and texture settings. Adjust your display
congurations, experiment with the advanced 3D settings, and check the effects with a real-
time 3D-rendered previews within ATI Catalyst™ Control Center. See Chapter 5 for details.
1.3.2 ASUS Unique features
ASUS TurboV
Feel the adrenaline rush of real-time OC—now a reality with the ASUS TurboV. This extreme
OC tool lets you set new ambitions on the OC stage with an advanced and easy-to-use
interface—allowing you to overclock without exiting or rebooting the OS. With micro
adjustments of the CPU PLL, NB, NB-PCIe, and DRAM voltages in 0.02v intervals, there are
no limits—only extreme results to break new OC records! See page 4-7 for details.