1.1Welcome!

Thank you for buying the ASUS® K8N-E motherboard!

The motherboard delivers a host of new features and latest technologies making it another standout in the long line of ASUS quality motherboards!

The motherboard combines the powers of the AMD Athlon™ 64 or AMD Sempron™ processor with the NVIDIA ® nForce3 250Gb chipset to set a new benchmark for an effective desktop platform solution.

Supporting up to 3GB of system memory with PC3200/PC2700/PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM, high-resolution graphics via an AGP 8X slot, Serial ATA RAID, USB 2.0, and 8-channel audio features, the motherboard takes you ahead in the world of power computing!

Before you start installing the motherboard, and hardware devices on it, check the items in your package with the list below.

1.2Package contents

Check your motherboard package for the following items.

ASUS K8N-E motherboard

ASUS motherboard support CD

1 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66 cables

1 x Serial ATA module (SATA cable + Power cable)

1 x Floppy disk cable

I/O shield

Bag of extra jumper caps

User guide

If any of the above items is damaged or missing, contact your retailer.

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Chapter 1: Product introduction