PCI Express 2.0 support

The motherboard supports the latest PCI Express 2.0 devices for double speed and bandwidth which enhances system performance.See page 1-26 for details.

Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology

The motherboard supports SATA hard drives based on the new SATA 3Gb/s storage specification. It allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 0+1, and JBOD configurations for five SATA connectors.

Multi-VGA output

This motherboard supports multiple digital and analog display output interfaces - HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort, and D-Sub. With such diversity of display outputs, you are able to choose and upgrade display devices freely.

S/PDIF digital sound ready

This motherboard provides convenient connectivity to external home theater audio systems via optical S/PDIF-out (SONY-PHILIPS Digital Interface) jacks.It allows to transfer digital audio without converting to analog format and keeps the best signal quality. See pages 1-28 for details.

High Definition Audio

Enjoy high-end sound quality on your PC! The onboard 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC enables high-quality 192KHz/24-bit audio output, jack-sensing feature, and multi-streaming technology that simultaneously sends different audio streams to different destinations. You can now talk to your partners on the headphone while playing multi-channel network games. See pages 1-28 and 1-29 for details.

DisplayPort

This motherboard introduces the new digital display interface standard - DisplayPort. This new design features a small and user-friendly connector. It delivers higher performances of resolution, refresh rate, and color depth and improves digital display connectivity. See page 1-30 for details.

Due to chipset limitation, DisplayPort on this motherboard only supports video signals.

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Chapter 1: Product Introduction