DVI/D-Sub Interface

DVI (Digital Visual Interface) provides high visual quality for digital display devices like LCD monitors. This motherboard supports dual VGA output—DVI and RGB—and is HDCP compliant, allowing playback of HD DVD and Blu-ray Discs. See pages 1-30 and 1-31 for details.

High Definition Audio

Enjoy high-end sound quality on your PC! The onboard 8-channel HD audio (High Definition Audio, previously codenamed Azalia) CODEC enables high-quality 192KHz/24-bit audio output 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 page���� ����1-30 ���for details��������.

S/PDIF digital sound ready

This motherboard provides convenient connectivity to external home theater audio systems via the coaxial (mid-board) S/PDIF (SONY-PHILIPS Digital Interface) Out interface. It allows digital audio transferring without converting it to analog format, and therefore well preserves signal quality. See pages 1-39 for details.

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Chapter 1: Product Introduction