Asus M3A78-EMH HDMI User Manual

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

DVI Interface

DVI (Digital Visual Interface) provides high visual quality of digital display devices

such as LCD monitor. The interface of this motherboard supports dual VGA output

both DVI and RGB and is HDCP compliant allowing playback of HD DVD and Blu-

Ray Disc. See page 1-30 for details.

Hybrid.CrossFireX.

AMD new technology Hybrid CrossFireX greatly boosts graphics performance with

an onboard GPU and a discrete graphics card.

Refer to www.asus.com for the discrete graphics GPU QVL list which supports

the Hybrid CrossFireX technology.

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 1-25 for details.

PCI Express 2.0 support

This motherboard supports the latest PCIe 2.0 devices for double speed and

bandwidth which enhances system performance.

DDR2 memory support

This motherboard is an AMD® platform with DDR2 1066 support. It provides faster

data transfer rate and more bandwidth to increase memory data transfer rate and

computing efficiency, enhancing system performance in 3D graphics and other

memory demanding applications.

DDR2 1066 is supported by some of the AM2+ CPUs only. Refer to