HDMI Interface

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the first and only industry-supported, uncompressed, all digital audio and video interface via a single cable and is HDCP compliant allowing playback of HD DVD, Blu-Ray Disc and other protected content. See page 1-26 for details.

HDMI/DVI/RGB Support

With an HDMI to DVI conversion adapter, this motherboard can support both DVI and HDMI output. DVI (Digital Visual Interface) provides high quality visuals for digital display devices like LCD monitors. The interface of this motherboard supports digital HDMI/DVI and analog D-Sub standards.

Hybrid CrossFireX

ATI new technology Hybrid CrossFireX greatly boosts graphics performance with an onboard GPU and a discrete graphics card.

• Hybrid CrossFireX technology is supported by Windows Vista® OS only.

•Refer to www.asus.com for the discrete graphics GPU QVL which lists the GPUs that support the Hybrid CrossFireX technology.

PCI Express 2.0 support

This motherboard supports the latest PCIe 2.0 devices for double speed and bandwidth which enhances system performance.

DDR2 memory support

This motherboard is an AMD® platform with DDR2 1066 support. It provides faster data transfer rate and more bandwidth to increase memory data transfer rate and computing efficiency, enhancing system performance in 3D graphics and other memory demanding applications.

Due to AMD CPU limitation, DDR2 1066 is supported by AM2+ CPU for one DIMM per channel only. Refer to www.asus.com for the supported CPU models.

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Chapter 1: Product introduction