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Asus M3N78-EH User Manual

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

Gigabit LAN solution

The on-board LAN controller is a highly integrated Gb LAN controller. It is

enhanced with an ACPI management function to provide efficient power

management for advanced operating systems. See page 1-23 for details.

HyperTransport 3.0 Support

HyperTransport™ 3.0 (HT3.0) technology provides 2.6 times more bandwidth than

HT1.0 that radically improves system efficiency for a smoother, faster computing

environment.

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 1-20 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.

Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology

The motherboard supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on the new

SATA 3Gb/s storage specification. The onboard NVIDIA

nForce 730a allows RAID

0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, and JBOD configurations for six SATA connectors.

High Definition Audio

Enjoy high-quality sound system on your PC! The onboard 8-channel HD audio

(High Definition Audio, previously codenamed Azalia) CODEC enables high-quality

192KHz/24-bit audio output, jack-detect feature, and multi-streaming technology.

You can now talk to your partners on the headphone while playing a multi-channel

network game. All of these are done on one computer.