| CPU | LGA775 socket for Intel® Core™2 Extreme / Core™2 |
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| Duo / Pentium® Extreme / Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 / |
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| Celeron® D Processors |
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| Compatible with Intel® 06/05B/05A processors |
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| Note: Visit the ASUS website at www.asus.com for the Intel® CPU support |
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| list. |
| Chipset | NVIDIA® nForce® 590 SLI™ Intel® Edition |
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| Features Enhanced Performance Profile Technology |
| Front Side Bus | 1066 / 800 / 533 MHz |
| Memory | |
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| - 4 x |
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| unbuffered DDR2 800/667/533 MHz memory |
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| modules |
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| - Supports up to 8 GB system memory |
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| Note: Visit the ASUS website at www.asus.com for the latest Qualified |
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| Vendors List (QVL). |
| Expansion slots | 2 x PCI Express™ x16 slots (blue and black) support |
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| NVIDIA® SLI™ technology at full x16, x16 speed |
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| 1 x PCI Express™ x16 slot (middle) supports an |
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| card at x8 speed |
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| 1 x PCI Express™ x1 |
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| 2 x PCI 2.2 |
| Scalable Link Interface | Supports two identical NVIDIA® |
| (SLI™) | cards (both at x16 mode) |
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| Note: The blue and the black PCI Express x 16 slots support NVIDIA® SLI™ |
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| technology at full x16, x16 speed. The middle slot is for an |
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| x8 speed. |
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| ASUS PEG Link |
| Storage/RAID | Southbridge supports: |
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| - 1 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 |
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| - 6 x Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s |
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| - NVIDIA® MediaShield™ RAID supports RAID 0, 1, |
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| 0+1, 5 and JBOD configuration across Serial ATA |
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| drives |
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| Silicon Image® 3132 SATA controller supports: |
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| - 2 x External Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s ports |
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| LAN | NVIDIA® nForce® 590 SLI™ |
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| MAC with external Marvell PHY |
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| Supports NVIDIA® DualNet® technology |
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