Asus M2N-XE - Manual (Page 15)

ASUS M2N-XE 1-3
NVIDIA ® GeForce™ 6100 GPU
and NVIDIA ® nForce™ 430 MCP chipsets
The NVIDIA ® GeForce™ 6100 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Northbridge
supports Microsoft ® DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, and PCI Express interface.
The NVIDIA ® nForce™ 430 Media and Communications Processor (MCP)
Southbridge delivers NVIDIA ® Gigabit and NVIDIA ® MediaShield storage
management technology allowing easy RAID configuration (RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD) for Serial ATA 3Gb/s.
DDR2 memory support
This motherboard supports DDR2 1066/800/533/400 memory which provides great
performance for 3D graphics and other memory demanding applications on the
next generation memory technology. See pages 1-12 to 1-16 for details.
* DDR2 1066 is supported by CPU AM2+ only
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 1-19 for details.
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 430 MCP
southbridge allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD configurations
for four SATA connectors.
Gigabit LAN solution
Gb LAN controller delivers transfer speeds up to ten times faster than conventional
10/100 Ethernet connections. Gigabit LAN is the networking standard for the early
future and is ideal for handling large amounts of data such as video, audio, and
voice.
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 1-27 for details.