Asus M2N-X PLUS - Manual (Page 15)

ASUS M2N-X PLUS 1-3
NVIDIA ® GeForce™ 6100 GPU
and NVIDIA ® nForce™ 430 MCP chipsets
The NVIDIA ® GeForce™ 6100 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Northbridge
supports Microsoft ® DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, and PCI Express interface.
The NVIDIA ® nForce™ 430 Media and Communications Processor (MCP)
Southbridge delivers NVIDIA ® Gigabit and NVIDIA ® MediaShield storage
management technology allowing easy RAID configuration (RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD) for Serial ATA 3Gb/s.
DDR2 memory support
This motherboard supports DDR2 1066 memory which provides great performance
for 3D graphics and other memory demanding applications on the next generation
memory technology. See pages 1-12 to 1-16 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 1-19 for details.
Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology
The motherboard supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on the
new SATA 3Gb/s storage specification. The onboard NVIDIA ® nForce 430 MCP
southbridge allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD configurations
for four SATA connectors.
10 / 100 Mbps LAN
Easy connectivity to your network or broadband connection with the onboard LAN
port. Allows you to play online games without buying expensive additional LAN
cards. See page 1-22 for details.
USB 2.0 technology
The motherboard implements the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 specification,
dramatically increasing the connection speed from the 12 Mbps bandwidth on USB
1.1 to a fast 480 Mbps on USB 2.0. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.1.
See page 1-27 for details.