AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology

This motherboard supports the AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology, which monitors system operation and automatically adjusts CPU voltage and frequency for a cool and quiet operating environment.

NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6100 GPU and NVIDIA® nForce™ 430 MCP chipsets

The NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6100 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Northbridge supports Microsoft® DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, and PCI Express interface.

The NVIDIA® nForce™ 430 Media and Communications Processor (MCP) Southbridge delivers NVIDIA® Gigabit and NVIDIA® MediaShield storage management technology allowing easy RAID configuration (RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD) for Serial ATA 3Gb/s.

DDR2 memory support

This motherboard supports DDR2 1066 memory which provides great performance for 3D graphics and other memory demanding applications on the next generation memory technology. See pages 1-13 to 1-16 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 3Gb/s technology

The motherboard supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on the new SATA 3Gb/s storage specification. The onboard NVIDIA® nForce 430 MCP southbridge allows RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD configurations for four SATA connectors.

ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS

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