M4A78-EM specifications summary

 

CPU

AMD® Socket AM2+ / AM2 for AMD® Phenom™ x4 /

 

 

Phenom™ x3 / Athlon™ x2 / Athlon™ / Sempron™

 

 

processors

 

 

Compatible with Phenom™ II / Athlon™ x4 / Athlon™ x3 /

 

 

Athlon™ x2 processors (AM3 CPU)

 

 

Supports 45nm CPU

 

 

AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet™ 2.0 Technology (depends on CPU

 

 

type)

 

 

Supports CPU up to 125W

 

 

Refer to www.asus.com for the AMD CPU support list

 

Chipset

AMD 780G / SB700

 

Front side bus

Up to 5200MT/s HyperTransport™ 3.0 interface for

 

 

AM3 / AM2+ CPU

 

 

2000 / 1600MT/s for AM2 CPU

 

Memory

Dual-channel memory architecture

 

 

4 x 240-pin DIMM slots support maximum 16GB unbuffered

 

 

ECC and non-ECC DDR2 1066/800/667MHz memory

 

 

modules

 

 

* DDR2 1066 is supported by AM3 / AM2+ CPU only.

 

 

** Refer to www.asus.com for the latest Memory QVL

 

 

(Qualified Vendors List).

 

 

*** When you install a total memory of 4GB or more,

 

 

Windows® 32-bit operating system may only recognize

 

 

less than 3GB. We recommend a maximum of 3GB

 

 

system memory if you are using a Windows® 32-bit

 

 

operating system.

 

Graphics

Integrated ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 GPU

 

 

Supports HDMI™ with max. resolution up to

 

 

1920x1200 (1080P)

 

 

Supports DVI-D (HDCP compliant) with max. resolution up to

 

 

2560x1600@60Hz dual-link

 

 

Supports RGB with max. resolution up to 2048x1536@85Hz

 

 

Supports Hybrid CrossFireX™ (for Windows® Vista only)

 

 

Dual VGA output supports:

 

 

RGB & DVI

 

 

RGB & HDMI

 

 

Maximum shared memory up to 256MB

 

 

* Refer to www.amd.com for the discrete GPUs which

 

 

support Hybrid CrossFireX™.

 

 

** The minimum system requirements of playing HD-DVD

 

 

and Blu-ray disc: Graphics shared memory of 256MB /

 

 

Dual-Core CPU / 1GB dual-channel DDR2 667 or

 

 

single-channel DDR2 800

 

Expansion slots

1 x PCIe x16 slot

 

 

1 x PCIe x1 slot

 

 

2 x PCI slots

 

 

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