Asus P5N-VM WS - Manual (Page 16)

1-2 Chapter 1: Product Introduction
1.3 Special features
1.3.1 Product 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/packaging 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 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad /
Core™ 2 Duo processors in the LGA775 package. It is excellent for multi-tasking,
multi-media and enthusiastic gamers with 1333 / 1066 / 800 MHz FSB. The Intel ®
Core™ 2 series processor is one of the most powerful CPUs in the world. This
motherboard also supports Intel ® CPUs in the new 45nm manufacturing process.
NVIDIA ® Quadro FX470 chipset
It is the first integrated Quadro chipset used to build on Intel LGA775 motherboard.
It supports Intel ® CPU Front Side Bus interface with Hyper-Threading up to
1333MT/s (333 MHz bus clock), 128-bit dual-channel DDR2-800 (2 DIMMs per
channel), and dual-DVI-I interface with integrated HDCP key. AHCI SATA controller
is integrated with support up to six drives at 1.5Gbps or 3.0 Gbps speeds, which
users can configure RAID0, 1, 0+1, 5 and JBOD in NVIDIA ® MediaShield™ RAID.
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 page 2-19 for details.
S/PDIF digital sound ready
This motherboard provides convenient connectivity to external home theater audio
systems via coaxial and optical S/PDIF-out (SONY-PHILIPS Digital Interface)
jacks. It allows to transfer digital audio without converting to analog format and
keeps the best signal quality. See page 2-21 and 2-22 for details.