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1.3Special features

1.3.1Product highlightsGreen ASUS

This motherboard complies with the European Union’s Energy-related Products (ErP) requirements, which requires products to meet certain energy efficiency criteria for energy consumption. This in in keeping with ASUS’ vision of creating environment-friendly and energy-efficient products to reduce a product’s carbon footprint and reduce its environmental impact.

LGA1155 socket for Intel® Second/Third Generation Core™ i3 and Xeon® E3-1200/ 12x5 v2 processors

This motherboard supports the latest Intel® 3rd/2nd generation Core™ i3 and Xeon®

E3-1200/ 12x5 v2 processors in the LGA1155 package, with memory and PCI Express controllers to support 2-channel (4 DIMMs) DDR3 memory and 16 PCI Express 3.0 lanes for great graphics performance.

C216

Intel® C216 Express Chipset is a single-chipset that supports the 1155 socket Intel® 2nd / 3rd generation Core™ i3 and Intel® Xeon E3-1200 v2 server processors. It utilizes the serial point-to-point links, which increases bandwidth and enhances the system’s performance. It comes with two SATA 6Gb/s and four SATA 3Gb/s ports for faster data retrieval, doubling the bandwidth of the current bus systems. It also enables the iGPU function for the latest Intel® integrated graphics performance.

PCI Express® 3.0

PCI Express® 3.0 (PCIe 3.0) is the latest PCI Express bus standard that provides twice the performance and speed of PCIe 2.0. It provides an optimal graphics performance, unprecedented data speed, and seamless transition with its complete backward compatibility to PCIe 1.0/2.0 devices.

Dual-Channel DDR3 1600/ 1333 support

This motherboard supports the dual-channel DDR3 architecture that features the data transfer rates of DDR3 1600/1333 MHz to boost the system’s performance, and to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications.

Native SATA 6Gb/s Support

With its Intel® C216 Chipset, this motherboard natively supports the next generation Seria ATA (SATA) storage interface, delivering up to 6.0 Gb/s data transfer rates. It provides enhanced scalability, faster data retrieval, and twice the bandwidth of current bus systems.

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