1.3Special features

1.3.1 Product hi ghli ghts

Latest processor technol ogy

The motherboard comes with a 775-pin surface mount Land Grid Array (LGA) socket designed for the Intel® Pentium® D, Intel® Pentium® 4, and Intel® Celeron® processors in the 775‑land package. The motherboard supports Intel® processors with 800/533 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB). The motherboard also supports the Intel® Hyper‑Threading Technology, Intel® Dual-Core Technology and is fully compatible with Intel® 05B/05A and 04B/04A processors. See page 1-9 for details.

I ntel ® Dual-Core Technol ogy CPU support

The motherboard supports dual-core processors containing two physical CPU cores with dedicated L2 caches to meet demands for more powerful processing.

Enhanced I ntel SpeedStep® Technol ogy (EI ST)

The Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology (EIST) intelligently manages the CPU resources by automatically adjusting the CPU voltage and core frequency depending on the CPU loading and system speed or power requirement.

Dual-channel DDR2 memory support

The motherboard supports DDR2 memory for flexible system upgrade and to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The dual‑channel architecture allows memory bandwidths of up to 8.5 GB/s for DDR2. See page 1-16 for details.

PCI Express™ i nterface

The motherboard fully supports PCI Express, the latest I/O interconnect technology that speeds up the PCI bus. PCI Express features point‑to­point serial interconnections between devices and allows higher clockspeeds by carrying data in packets. This high speed interface is software compatible with existing PCI specifications. See pages 1-23 for details.

ASUS P5ND2

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