Asus M3N78-EH User Manual

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ASUS M3N78-EH

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AMD Socket AM2 Athlon 64 X2 /

Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 / Sempron CPU support

The motherboard supports AMD socket AM2 single-core Athlon 64/ Sempron and

dual-core Athlon 64 X2/ Athlon 64 FX processors with 2MB / 1MB / 512KB

L2 cache, which is based on 64-bit architecture. It features 2000 / 1600 MT/s

HyperTransport Bus, dual-channel un-buffered DDR2 800 memory support and

AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet! Technology. See page 1-9 for details.

AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology

The motherboard supports the AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology, which monitors

system operation and automatically adjusts CPU voltage and frequency for a cool

and quiet operating environment.

NVIDIA

nForce™ 730a chipset

The motherboard integrates NVIDIA

nForce 730a chipset which delivers NVIDIA

Gigabit LAN, and NVIDIA MediaShield storage management technology allowing

easy RAID configuration (RAID 0, RAID 1,RAID10, RAID5, and JBOD) for Serial

ATA 3Gb/s.

Hybrid SLI

Hybrid SLI technology, based on NVIDIA’s industry-leading SLI technology,

delivers multi-GPU benefits when an NVIDIA motherboard GPU is combined with

an NVIDIA discrete GPU.

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. See pages 1-13 for details.

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