Crosshair II Formula specifications summary

 

CPU

AMD® Socket AM2+ for AMD Phenom™ FX / Phenom /

 

 

Athlon™ / Sempron™ processors

 

 

AMD Socket AM2 for Athlon 64 X2 / Athlon 64 FX /

 

 

Athlon 64 / Sempron processors

 

 

AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet™ Technology

 

Chipset

NVIDIA® nForce® 780a SLI™

 

System Bus

Up to 5200 MT/s; HyperTransport™ 3.0 interface for

 

 

AM2+ CPU

 

 

2000 / 1600 MT/s for AM2 CPU

 

Memory

Dual-channel memory architecture

 

 

- 4 x 240-pin DIMM sockets support unbuffered ECC/

 

 

non�������-ECC DDR2���� 1066*/800/667MHz���������������� memory������

 

 

modules

 

 

- Supports up to 8 GB system memory

 

 

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Memory QVL (Qualified Vendors Lists).

 

VGA

Integrated NVIDIA® GPU

 

 

Hybrid SLI Support (supports Windows® Vista™ only)

 

 

Maximum shared memory of 512MB

 

 

Supports HDMI™ Technology 1080P with a maximum

 

 

resolution of 1920 x 1080 bpp; maximum DVI

 

 

resolution of 1920 x 1200 bpp

 

 

Supports D-Sub with a maximum resolution of

 

 

1920 x 1440 bpp @ 75 Hz

 

 

Multi VGA output support: HDMI/DVI & D-Sub

 

 

Supports Microsoft® DirectX® 10, OpenGL® 2.0,

 

 

Pixel Shader 4.0

 

 

Support PCIe 2.0/1.0 architecture

 

Expansion Slots

3 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (support ������NVIDIA® SLI™

 

 

technology ��@ dual���� x16��� or�� 3�����-way x8�� x8�� x8�� speed)������

 

 

2 x PCIe x1 slots (PCIEX1_1 (black) is compatible with

 

 

the audio slot.)

 

 

2 x PCI 2.2 slots

 

Storage

Chipset supports:���������

 

 

- 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66/33

 

 

- 6xSATA���� 3���.0 ����Gb/s connectors���������� support������� RAID���� 0,�� 1,��

 

 

0+1,���� 5,�� and��� ����JBOD

 

 

(Use SATA 1–4 connectors for IDE mode)

 

LAN

Dual Gigabit LAN, both featuring AI NET 2

 

High Definition Audio

SupremeFX II Audio Card

 

 

- ADI 1988B 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC

 

 

- Noise Filter

 

 

Coaxial / Optical S/PDIF Out ports at back I/O

 

IEEE 1394

2 x IEEE 1394a ports (one at midboard; one at back

 

 

panel)

 

 

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