M5A78L-M LX3 Series specifications summary

 

CPU

AMD® Socket AM3+ for AMD® FX™ / Phenom™ II / Athlon™ II /

 

 

Sempron™ 100 series processors

 

 

AMD® Cool ‘n’ Quiet™ Technology

 

 

Supports AMD® AM3/AM3+ CPU up to 95W

 

 

* Refer to www.asus.com for the AMD® CPU support list

 

Chipset

AMD® 760G(780L) / SB710

 

Front side bus

Up to 5200 MT/s HyperTransport™ 3.0 interface

 

Memory

Dual-channel memory architecture

 

 

2 x 240-pin DIMM slots support maximum 16GB unbuffered ECC and non-

 

 

ECC DDR3 1866 / 1600 / 1333 / 1066MHz memory modules

 

 

* AMD® FX™ Series CPU on this motherboard supports up to DDR3

 

 

1866MHz as its standard memory frequency.

 

 

** Due to CPU specification, AMD® AM3 CPUs on this motherboard support

 

 

up to DDR3 1333MHz.

 

 

*** Refer to www.asus.com for the latest Memory QVL (Qualified Vendors

 

 

List).

 

 

**** Use a 64-bit Windows® OS if you want to install 4GB or more memory

 

 

on the motherboard.

 

Graphics

Integrated ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 GPU

 

 

Supports max. shared memory of 1GB

 

 

Supports RGB with max. resolution of 2560 x 1440 (@75Hz)

 

 

Supports Microsoft® DirectX 10

 

 

Supports Hybrid CrossFireXTM (For Windows Vista or later versions)

 

 

* Refer to www.amd.com for the discrete GPUs that support Hybrid

 

 

CrossFireX™.

 

Expansion slots

1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slot

 

 

1 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slot

 

 

1 x PCI slot

 

Storage / RAID

4 x Serial ATA 3Gb/s connectors support RAID 0, 1, 10 and JBOD

 

LAN

 

 

Qualcomm Atheros Gb LAN

 

Audio

 

 

Realtek® ALC887 8-channel* High Definition Audio CODEC

 

 

* Use the chassis with HD audio module in the front panel to support 8-

 

 

channel audio output.

 

USB

Supports up to 8 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 ports at mid-board, 4 ports at the

 

 

back panel)

 

ASUS Unique

ASUS MyLogo 2

 

Features

ASUS EZ Flash 2

 

 

ASUS EPU

 

 

ASUS Anti-Surge

 

 

ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3

 

 

ASUS Fan Xpert

 

 

ASUS Core Unlocker

 

 

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