Crosshair specifications summary

CPU

Support AMD® Socket AM2 Athlon 64 X2 / Athlon 64 FX /

 

Athlon 64/ Sempron

 

AMD Cool 'n' Quiet™ Technology

 

AMD64 architecture enables simultaneous 32-bit and

 

64-bit computing

 

AMD Live!™ Ready

Chipset

 

NVIDIA nForce® 590 SLI™ MCP

 

NVIDIA LinkBoost™ Technology

System bus

 

2000 / 1600 MT/s

Memory

Dual channel memory architecture

 

4 x DIMM, max. 8GB, DDR2-800/667/533, ECC and non-

 

ECC, un-buffered memory

Expansion slots

2 x PCI Express x16 slot with NVIDIA® SLI™ technology

 

support, at full x16, x16 speed

 

1 x PCI Express x4

 

3 x PCI 2.2

Scalable Link Interface

Support two identical NVIDIA SLI-Ready graphics cards

(SLI™)

(both at x16 mode)

 

ASUS two-slot thermal design

 

ASUS PEG Link

High Definition Audio

SupremeFX Audio Card

 

featuring ADI 1988B 8-channel High Definition Audio

 

CODEC

 

Support Jack-Sensing, Enumeration, Multi-streaming and

 

Jack-Retasking

 

8 channel audio ports

 

Coaxial, Optical S/PDIF out on back I/O port

 

* ASUS Array Mic

 

* Noise Filter

Storage

NVIDIA nForce® 590 SLI™ MCP supports:

 

* 1 x Ultra DMA 133 / 100 / 66 / 33

 

* 6 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ

 

* NVIDIA MediaShield™ RAID supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1,

 

5 and JBOD span cross Serial ATA drives

Silicon Image® 3132 SATA controller supports:

*2 x External Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s port on back I/O (SATA On-the-Go)

*Support RAID 0, 1, JBOD, RAID 0+1(10) and 5 through multiplier

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