P5K specifications summary

 

CPU

LGA775 socket for Intel® Core™2 Quad / Core™2

 

 

Extreme / Core™2 Duo / Pentium® Extreme / Pentium®

 

 

D / Pentium® 4 / Celeron®D processors

 

 

Compatible with Intel® 05B/05A/06 processors

 

 

Supports Intel® next-generation 45nm multi-core CPUs

 

Chipset

Intel® P35 / ICH9 with Intel® Fast Memory Access

 

 

Technology

 

System bus

1333/1066/800 MHz

 

Memory

Dual-channel memory architecture

 

 

- 4 x 240-pin DIMM sockets support unbuffered

 

 

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

 

 

modules

 

 

- Supports up to 8 GB system memory

 

 

* The chipset officially supports the memory frequency up

 

 

to DDR2 800MHz. Tuned by the ASUS Super Memspeed

 

 

Technology, this motherboard natively supports up to

 

 

DDR2 1066MHz.

 

 

Refer to www.asus.com or this user manual for the

 

 

Memory QVL (Qualified Vendors Lists).

 

Expansion slots

2 x PCI Express™ x16 slots (blue @ x16 mode, black @

 

 

x4 or x1 mode)

 

 

1 x PCI Express™ x1 slot

 

 

3 x PCI slots

 

Storage

Southbridge

 

 

- 4 x Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s ports

 

 

JMicron® JMB363 PATA and SATA controller supports:

 

 

- 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices

 

 

- 1 x Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s port

 

 

- 1 x External SATA 3.0 Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)

 

 

- Supports SATA RAID 0, 1, and JBOD

 

LAN

PCIe Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET2

 

Audio

Realtek® 8-channel High-Definition Audio CODEC

 

 

- Supports Jack-Sensing, Enumeration,

 

 

Multi-Streaming

 

 

- Coaxial S/PDIF out ports at back I/O

 

 

- ASUS Noise Filter

 

IEEE 1394

VIA controller supports 2 x IEEE 1394a ports

 

 

(one at midboard; one at back panel)

 

USB

12 x USB 2.0 ports (6 at mid-board, 6 at back panel)

 

 

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