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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/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 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad /
Core™ 2 Duo processors in the LGA775 package. It is excellent for multi-tasking,
multi-media and enthusiastic gamers with 1600 / 1333 / 1066 / 800 MHz FSB. The
Intel
®
Core™ 2 series processor is one of the most powerful CPUs in the world.
This motherboard also supports Intel
®
CPUs in the new 45nm manufacturing
process.
Intel P45 Chipset
The Intel
®
P45 Express Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support 16GB of
dual-channel DDR3 1600/ 1333/ 1066/ 800 architecture, 1600/ 1333/ 1066/ 800
FSB (Front Side Bus), PCIe 2.0, and multi-core CPUs. 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.
DDR3 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR3 memory that features data transfer rates of
1600 /1333 / 1066 / 800 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the
latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The dual-channel DDR3
architecture doubles the bandwidth of your system memory to boost system
performance. Furthermore, this motherboard does not restrict the memory size
across two channels. Users may install different memory size DIMMs into the two
channels and enjoy dual-channel and single-channel functions at the same time.
This new feature optimizes the use of available memory size. See page 2-13 for
details.