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C h a p t e r 1 : P r o d u c t i n t r o d u c t i o n

1.3

Special features

1.3.1

Product highlights

Latest processor technology

The motherboard comes with a 775-pin surface mount Land Grid Array
(LGA) socket designed for the Intel

Pentium

4 processor in the 775-land

package. The motherboard supports the Intel

Pentium

4 processor and

the Intel

Pentium

D processor with 1066/800/533 MHz Front Side Bus

(FSB). The motherboard also supports the Intel

Hyper-Threading

Technology and is fully compatible with Intel

05B/05A and 04B/04A

processors. See page 2-7 for details.

Intel

Dual-Core Technology CPU support

The motherboard supports dual-core processors containing two physical
CPU cores with dedicated L2 caches to meet demands for more powerful
processing. See page 2-7 for details.

Intel

975X/ICH7R chipset

The Intel

975X Memory Controller Hub (MCH) and the ICH7R I/O controller

hub provide the vital interfaces for the motherboard. The Intel

975X

supports up to 8 GB dual-channel DDR2-667/533 MHz, 1066/800 FSB, PCI
Express x16 graphics, and dual-core CPU. The MCH supports the Intel

Memory Pipeline Technology (MPT) that boosts system performance.

The Intel

ICH7R Southbridge integrates four Serial ATA ports enabled

through the Serial ATA 3 Gb/s RAID controller to ensure data security and
enable powerful multi-task processing.

ATI Radeon

Xpress 200 CrossFire™

The ATI Radeon

Xpress 200 CrossFire™ boosts image quality and

rendering speed, eliminating the need to crank down screen resolutions to
get high quality images. The chipset allows higher antialiasing, anisotropic
filtering, shading, and texture settings. ATI Radeon

Xpress 200 CrossFire™

features the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center that allows you to get real-time
3D-rendered previews of adjustments to your display configurations and
advanced 3D settings. See Chapter 6 for details.