1.3Special features

1.3.1Product highlights

Green ASUS

This motherboard and its packaging comply with the European Union’s Restriction on the use of Hazardous Substances (RoHS). This is in line with the ASUS vision of creating environment-friendly and recyclable products/packagings to safeguard consumers’ health while minimizing the impact on the environment.

Intel® Core™2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad / Core™2 Duo Processor Support

This motherboard supports the latest Intel® Core™2 processors in LGA775 package. It can also support Intel® 45nm multi-core CPUs. With new Intel® Core™ microarchitecture technology and 1600/1333/1066/800MHz FSB, Intel® Core™2 processor is one of the most powerful and energy efficient CPUs in the world.

Intel G45 Chipset

The Intel® G45 Express Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support dual- channel DDR2 800/667 architecture, 1333/1066/800 FSB (Front Side Bus), PCIe 2.0, and multi-core CPUs. It provides digital home entertainment of full 1080p high- definition video playback, including Blu-ray disc movies, with the next-generation Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD. The Intel® G45 Express Chipset delivers optimized 3D graphics performance and support for Microsoft DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0 and OpenGL 2.1. It especially includes Intel® Fast Memory Access technology that significantly optimizes the use of available memory bandwidth and reduces the latency of the memory accesses.

PCIe 2.0

This motherboard supports the latest PCIe 2.0 device for twice the current speed and bandwidth. This enhances system performance while still providing backward compatibility to PCIe 1.0 devices. ���See page���� 1����-27 for��� details��������.

Serial ATA 3 Gb/s technology

This motherboard supports hard drives based on the Serial ATA (SATA) 3 Gb/s storage specification, delivering enhanced scalability and doubling the bus bandwidth for high-speed data retrieval and saves. The onboard Intel® ICH10R allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10 configurations for six SATA connectors. See��� page���� 1����-36 for��� ��������details.

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