M5A99FX PRO R2.0 specifications summary

 

CPU

AMD® Socket AM3+ for AMD® FX Series CPU up to 8-core

 

 

Compatible with AMD® Socket AM3 for AMD® Phenom™II/Athlon™

 

 

II/Sempron™ 100 Series Processors

 

 

AMD 140W CPU Support

 

 

AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet™ Technology

 

 

Supports AM3+ 32nm CPU

 

Chipset

AMD® 990FX / SB950

 

System Bus

Up to 5200 MT/s; HyperTransport™ 3.0

 

Memory

4 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR3 2133(O.C)/1866/1600/1333/1066

 

 

MHz, ECC, Non-ECC, un-buffered Memory

 

 

Dual channel memory architecture

 

 

*Due to CPU spec., AMD 100 Series CPUs support up to DDR3 1066MHz.

 

 

With ASUS design, this motherboard can support up to DDR3 1333MHz.

 

 

**Due to OS limitation, when installing total memory of 4GB capacity

 

 

or more, Windows® 32-bit operation system may only recognize

 

 

less than 3GB. Hence, a total installed memory of less than 3GB is

 

 

recommended.

 

 

***Refer to www.asus.com or user manual for the Memory QVL(Qualified

 

 

Vendors Lists) of AM3+/AM3 CPU.

 

Expansion slots

2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (Dual@x16/x16 speed)

 

 

2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (Black@x4 speed)

 

 

1 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slot

 

 

1 x PCI slot

 

Multi-GPU support

Supports NVIDIA® Quad-GPU SLI™ Technology

 

 

Supports AMD® Quad-GPU CrossFireX™ Technology

 

Storage

AMD® SB950 Chipset:

 

 

- 5 x SATA 6Gb/s ports with RAID 0,1,5 and 10 support (gray)

 

 

- 1 x eSATA port

 

 

1 x ASMedia® PCIe SATA controller:

 

 

- 2 x SATA 6Gb/s ports (navy blue)

 

LAN

Realtek® 8111F Gigabit LAN controller

 

Audio

Realtek® ALC 892 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC

 

 

- Supports Jack-Detection, Multi-Streaming, and Front Panel

 

 

Jack-Retasking

 

 

- Supports 192khz/ 24bit True BD Lossless Sound

 

 

- Blu-ray audio layer Content Protection

 

 

- DTS UltraPC II

 

 

- DTS Connect

 

 

- Optical S/PDIF Out port at back I/O

 

 

- ASUS Noise Filter

 

 

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