AMD® 690G . and ATI SB600 chipsets

The AMD 690G Northbridge is the latest AMD chipset designed to support 800/1000MHz HT(HyperTransport) interface speeds, Microsoft® DirectX 9.0, Pixel Shader V2.0 and dual VGA outputs, and max. shared memory up to 256MB.It features the integrated ATI Radeon X1250 Graphics. See page 1-24 and 2-23 for details.

Surroundview

The Surroundview function provides four independent monitors display with an additional ATI VGA card for multi-tasking.See pages 1-20 and 2-23 for details.

DVI Interface

DVI (Digital Visual Interface) provides high visual quality of digital display devices such as LCD monitor. The interface of this motherboard supports dual VGA output both DVI and RGB and is HDCP compliant allowing playback of HD DVD and Blu-Ray Disc.. See page 1-24 for details.

DDR2 memory support

The motherboard supports DDR2 memory which features data transfer rates of 800MHz/667MHz/533 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The dual-channel DDR2 architecture doubles the bandwidth of your system memory to boost system performance, eliminating bottlenecks with peak bandwidths of up to 12.8 GB/s. See page 1-13 for details.

PCI Express™ interface

The motherboard fully supports PCI Express, the latest I/O interconnect technology that speeds up the PCI bus. PCI Express features point‑to­point serial interconnections between devices and allows higher clockspeeds by carrying data in packets. This high speed interface is software compatible with existing PCI specifications. See page 1-20 for details.

Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s technology

The motherboard supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on the new SATA 3.0Gb/s storage specification. The onboard ATI® SB600 allows RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10 configurations for four SATA connectors. See pages 1-27 and 2-25 for details.

ASUS M2A-VM

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