Asus M3A78-VM 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 monitors. The interface of this motherboard supports dual VGA
output both DVI and RGB and is HDCP compliant allowing playback of HD DVD,
Blu-ray Disc.
Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology
This motherboard supports the next-generation hard drives based on the Serial
ATA (SATA) 3Gb/s storage specification, delivering enhanced scalability and
doubling the bus bandwidth for high-speed data retrieval and saves.
Gigabit LAN solution
The on-board LAN controller is a highly integrated Gigabit LAN controller. It
is enhanced with an ACPI management function to provide efficient power
management for advanced operating systems.
AMD
®
780G and ATI SB700 chipsets
AMD 780G Northbridge is the latest AMD chipset designed for both HT1.0 and
5200MT/s HyperTransport™ 3.0 (HT 3.0) interface speed and external graphics
in PCI Express™ 2.0/1.1 standard. It features the future mainstream Hybrid
CrossFireX technology that significantly optimizes your 3D performance.
To ensure high visual quality, install Windows
®
Media Player 11 or later versions
when you connect a display monitor to the DisplayPort, VGA, or DVI port, or
when you connect two display monitors to any two of these three ports.