| CPU | AMD® Socket AM3+ for AMD® FX Series CPU up to |
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| Compatible with AMD® Socket AM3 for AMD® Phenom™II/Athlon™ |
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| II/Sempron™ 100 Series Processors |
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| AMD 140W CPU Support |
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| AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet™ Technology |
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| Supports AM3+ 32nm CPU |
| Chipset | AMD® 970/SB950 |
| System Bus | Up to 4800 MT/s; HyperTransport™ 3.0 |
| Memory | 4 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR3 2133(O.C)/1866/1600/1333/1066 |
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| MHz, ECC, |
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| Dual channel memory architecture |
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| *Due to CPU spec., AMD 100 Series CPUs support up to DDR3 1066MHz. |
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| With ASUS design, this motherboard can support up to DDR3 1333MHz. |
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| **Due to OS limitation, when installing total memory of 4GB capacity |
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| or more, Windows® |
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| less than 3GB. Hence, a total installed memory of less than 3GB is |
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| recommended. |
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| ***Refer to www.asus.com or user manual for the Memory QVL(Qualified |
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| Vendors Lists) of AM3+/AM3 CPU. |
| Expansion slots | 2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (Blue@x16 speed; Black@x4 speed) |
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| 2 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots |
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| 2 x PCI slots |
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| Storage | AMD® SB950 Chipset: |
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| - 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports with RAID 0,1,5 and 10 support (gray) |
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| 1 x ASMedia® PCIe SATA controller: |
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| - 2 x eSATA 6Gb/s ports (red) |
| LAN | Realtek® 8111F Gigabit LAN controller |
| Audio | Realtek® ALC 892 |
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| - Supports |
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| - Supports 192khz/ 24bit True BD Lossless Sound |
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| - |
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| - DTS UltraPC II |
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| - DTS Connect |
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| - Optical S/PDIF Out port at back I/O |
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| - ASUS Noise Filter |
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