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Asus M3N78-AM User Manual

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

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 1-22 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.

6-channel High definition audio

The onboard 6-channel ALC662 High Definition audio CODEC enables high-quality

audio which automatically detects peripherals plugged into the audio I/O jacks.

ALC662 also supports Windows

®

Vista Premium. See pages 2-29 for details.

HyperTransport 3.0 Support

MT/s

5200

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.

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.

Visit the ASUS website at www.asus.com to download the latest Hybrid SLI

driver.