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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

1.1

Special features

1.1.1

Product highlights

Latest processor technology

The motherboard comes with a 939-pin surface mount, Zero Insertion
Force (ZIF) socket that supports AMD

Athlon™ 64/Athlon™ 64 FX/Athlon™

64 X2 processors. With an integrated low-latency high-bandwidth memory
controller and a highly-scalable HyperTransport™ technology-based system
bus, the motherboard provides a powerful platform for your diverse
computing needs, increased office productivity, and enhanced digital media
experience. See page 1-8.

NVIDIA

GeForce™ 6150 GPU

and NVIDIA

nForce™ 430 MCP chipsets

The NVIDIA

GeForce™ 6150 graphics processing unit (GPU) Northbridge

supports Microsoft

DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, dual VGA out (RGB and

DVI-D), NVIDIA

PureVideo Technology with unprecedented integrated

video quality, TV-out, and PCI Express interface.

The NVIDIA

nForce™ 430 media and communications processor (MCP)

Southbridge delivers NVIDIA

Gigabit LAN, and NVIDIA

MediaShield storage

management technology allowing easy RAID configuration (RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 0+1, and RAID 5) for Serial ATA II.

Dual-channel DDR memory support

Employing the Double Data Rate (DDR) memory technology, the
motherboard supports up to 4 GB of system memory using DDR400/333
DIMMs. The ultra-fast 400 MHz memory bus delivers the required
bandwidth for the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications.
See page 1-10 for details.

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 1-15 for details.