M2N-Plus SLI Vista Edition specifications summary

 

CPU

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

 

 

/ AMD Athlon 64™ / AMD Sempron™ processors

 

 

Supports AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet™ Technology

 

 

AMD64 architecture enables simultaneous 32-bit and

 

 

64-bit computing

 

 

AMD Live!™ ready

 

Chipset

NVIDIA® nForce® 500 SLI™ MCP

 

System bus

2000 / 1600 MT/s

 

Memory

Dual-channel memory architecture

 

 

- 4 x 240-pin DIMM sockets support unbufferred

 

 

ECC/non-ECC DDR2 800/667/533 MHz memory

 

 

modules

 

 

- Supports up to 8 GB system memory

 

Expansion slots

2 x PCI Express™ x16 slots with NVIDIA® SLI™ support

 

 

at x8, x8 speed

 

 

2 x PCI Express™ x1 slots

 

 

2 x PCI 2.2 slots

 

Scalable Link Interface

Supports two identical NVIDIA® SLI™-ready graphics

 

(SLI™)

cards, both at x8 mode

 

 

ASUS two-slot thermal design

 

Storage

NVIDIA® nForce® 500 SLI™ MCP supports:

 

 

- 2 x IDE connectors for four Ultra DMA133/100/66/33

 

 

devices

 

 

- 4 x Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s connectors support four

 

 

Serial ATA devices

 

 

- RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD

 

 

configurations spanning across Serial ATA drives

 

LAN

NVIDIA® nForce® 500 SLI™ MCP built-in Gigabit MAC

 

 

with external Attansic PHY

 

 

- Supports TCP/IP Acceleration

 

Audio

C-Media Superior Quality Audio 7.1 channel CODEC

 

 

(Vista-ready)

 

 

- Supports S/PDIF Out interface

 

IEEE 1394a

VIA 1394 controller supports 2 x 1394a ports

 

USB 2.0

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

 

 

four on the rear panel)

 

 

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