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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

Processor Extreme Edition,

Intel

Pentium

D, Intel

Pentium

4, and Intel

Celeron

processor in the

775-land package. The motherboard supports Intel

processors with 1066/

800/533 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB). The motherboard also supports the
Intel

Hyper-Threading Technology, Intel

Dual-Core Technology and is fully

compatible with Intel

05B/05A and 04B/04A processors. See page 2-6

for details.

NVIDIA

Scalable Link Interface (SLI™) - Intel

Edition

The NVIDIA

nForce4

Scalable Link Interface (SLI™) - Intel

Edition

technology allows two graphics processing units (GPUs) in a single system.
This technology takes advantage of the PCI Express™ bus architecture and
features intelligent hardware and software solutions that allows multiple
GPUs to work together and achieve exceptional graphics performance. See
Chapter 6 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 2-6 for details.

Intel

EM64T

The motherboard supports Intel

processors with the Intel

EM64T

(Extended Memory 64 Technology). The Intel

EM64T feature allows your

computer to run on 64-bit operating systems and access larger amounts of
system memory for faster and more efficient computing. See the Appendix
for details.

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep

Technology (EIST)

The Enhanced Intel SpeedStep

Technology (EIST) intelligently manages

the CPU resources by automatically adjusting the CPU voltage and core
frequency depending on the CPU loading and system speed or power
requirement. See Appendix for details.