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Asus P5GC-VM Pro User Manual

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

PCI Express™ interface

The motherboard fully supports PCI Express, the latest I/O interconnect technology

that speeds up the PCI bus. PCI Express features point-to-point 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 page 1-23 for details.

USB 2.0 technology

The motherboard implements the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 specification,

dramatically increasing the connection speed from the 12 Mbps bandwidth on USB

1.1 to a fast 480 Mbps on USB 2.0. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.1.

See page 1-25 and 1-32 for details.

Serial ATA 3 Gb / s technology

The motherboard supports the Serial ATA technology through the Serial ATA

interfaces and the Intel

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ICH7 chipset. The SATA specification allows for thinner,

more flexible cables with lower pin count, reduced voltage requirement, and up to

300 MB/s data transfer rate.

High Definition Audio

Enjoy high-end sound quality on your PC! The onboard HD audio (High Definition

Audio, previously codenamed Azalia) CODEC enables high-quality 192KHz / 24-bit

audio output, 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.