M2N/M2N DH specifications summary

 

CPU

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

 

 

/AMD Athlon™ 64 FX /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® 430 MCP

 

System bus

2000 / 1600 MT/s

 

Memory

Dual-channel memory architecture

 

 

- 4 x 240-pin DIMM sockets support unbuffered

 

 

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

 

 

modules

 

 

- Supports up to 8 GB system memory

 

Expansion slots

1 x PCI Express™ x16 slot

 

 

2 x PCI Express™ x1 slots

 

 

3 x PCI 2.2 slots

 

Storage

NVIDIA® nForce® 430 MCP supports:

 

 

- 1 x IDE connector for up to two Ultra DMA

 

 

133/100/66/33 devices

 

 

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

 

 

Serial ATA devices

 

 

- RAID 0, RAID1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD

 

 

configurations spanning across Serial ATA drives

 

 

via the onboard NVIDIA® MediaShield™ RAID

 

 

controller

 

LAN

NVIDIA® nForce® 430 MCP built-in Gigabit MAC with

 

 

external Attansic PHY

 

High Definition Audio

ADI 6-channel High Definition Audio CODEC

 

 

Supports Jack-Sensing, Enumeration Technology

 

 

S/PDIF Out interface

 

USB

Supports up to 10 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (for M2N model)

 

 

Supports up to 8 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (for M2N DH model)

 

Special features

ASUS Q-Fan 2 (for 4-pin CPU cooler only)

 

 

Q-Connector

 

 

ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3

 

 

ASUS EZ Flash 2

 

 

Advanced Thermal Design

 

 

- ASUS Fanless Design: Heat-sink Thermal solution

 

 

ASUS MyLogo

 

 

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