A8N-SLI specifications summary

C P U

Chipset

Front Side Bus

Memory

Expansion slots

Storage

Audio

L A N

IEEE 1394

U S B

BIOS features

Special features

Socket 939 for AMD Athlon™ 64FX/AMD Athlon™ 64 processor

Supports AMD 64 architecture that enables simultaneous 32-bit and 64-bit architecture

NVIDIA¨ nForce™4 SLI

1 GHz (K8) / 800 MHz

Dual-channel memory architecture

4 x 184-pin DIMM sockets support non-ECC unbufferred 400 MHz DDR memory modules

Supports up to 2 GB system memory

2 x PCI Express™ x16 slot for discrete graphics cards* 2 x PCI Express™ x1 slots

3 x PCI slots

NVIDIA¨ nForce™4 SLI chipset supports:

-4 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 hard disk drives

-4 x Serial ATA drives with RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 0+1 configurations

Realtek¨ ALC850 8-channel CODEC 1 x Coaxial S/PDIF out port

1 x Optical S/PDIF out port

Marvell¨ 88E81111 PCI Express™ Gigabit LAN controller

T1 1394a controller supports: - 2 x IEEE 1394a ports

Supports up to 10 USB 2.0 ports

4 Mb Flash ROM, Phoenix-Award BIOS, LPC, Green, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 2.3, ACPI 2.0a

ASUS Q-Fan2

ASUS My Logo2™

ASUS EZ Flash

ASUS Crash Free BIOS 2

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This motherboard does not support the Scalable Link Interface™ (SLI) mode for two identical SLI™-ready PCI Express x16 graphics cards.

Single card mode (default) supports:

-1 x PCI Express™ x16 graphics card on either blue or black slot

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