Intel® Q965 Express Chipset
The Intel® Q965 Express Chipset provides all business wth more effective costs management, safer computing environmrnt, and deploys more responsive PCs. It features the integrated graphics engine, Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3000, and Intel® Active Management Technology, both of which provide advancements in manageability, graphics, stability, data protection, and optimizations to support the most advanced business operating systems.
Intel® vPro™ Technology
The �����Intel® vPro™ Technology allows IT organizations to remotely manage corporate PCs, even when they are powered off or with non-functional operating systems.
It features the Intel® Active Management Technology and offers IT organizations a lighter-weight form of virtualization to audit all Intel® AMT-based platforms in a network environment. PCs with Intel® vPro™ Technology allow IT departments to remotely retrieve assets and hardware/software inventories, contain security threats, resolve system problems, and increase the uptime of desktops with lower maintenance costs. To enable the Intel® vPro™ Technology, first enable the related vPro™ Technology settings. See page 2-26 for details.
DDR2 memory support 
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory that features data transfer rates of 800/667/533 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The dual-channel DDR2 architecture doubles the bandwidth of your system memory to boost system performance, eliminating bottlenecks with peak bandwidths of up to 12.8 GB/s. Without restriction to the memory size across the two channels, the motherboard allows you to install DIMMs with different memory size and enjoy dual-channel feature at the same time. See page 1-18 for details.
Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s technology and SATA on the go 
This motherboard supports the next-generation hard drives based on the Serial ATA (SATA) 3Gb/s storage specification, delivering enhanced scalability and doubling the bus bandwidth for high-speed data retrieval and saves. The external SATA port located at the back I/O provides smart setup and hot-plug functions. Easily backup photos, videos and other entertainment contents to external devices. See page 1-30 and 1-34 for details.
IEEE 1394a support
The IEEE 1394a interface provides high speed digital interface for audio/video appliances such as digital television, digital video camcorders, storage peripherals & other PC portable devices. See page 1-30 and 1-34 for details.
