Asus P5E Deluxe - Manual (Page 18)

1-2 Chapter 1: Product Introduction
1.3 Special features
1.3.1 Product highlights
Green ASUS
This motherboard and its packaging comply with the European Union’s Restriction
on the use of Hazardous Substances (RoHS). This is in line with the ASUS vision
of creating environment-friendly and recyclable products/packaging to safeguard
consumers’ health while minimizing the impact on the environment.
Intel ® Core™2 Quad / Core™2 Duo / Core™2 Extreme
CPU support
This motherboard supports the latest Intel ® Quad-core/Core™2 processor in the
LGA775 package and Intel’s 45nm multi-core processors. With the new Intel ®
Core™ microarchitecture technology and 1600/1333/1066/800 MHz FSB, the Intel ®
Core™2 is one of the most powerful and energy efficient CPUs in the world. See
page 2-6 for details.
Intel ® X48 Chipset
The Intel ® X48 Express Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support dual-
channel DDR2 1200 (O.C.)/1066/800/667 architecture, 1600/1333/1066/800 FSB
(Front Side Bus), dual PCI Express x16 graphics, and multi-core CPUs. With
the specially included Intel ® Fast Memory Access technology, available memory
bandwidth usage is optimized and memory access latency is reduced.
ATI CrossFire™ Technology
ATI’s CrossFire™ boosts image quality along with rendering speed, eliminating
the need to scale down screen resolution to get high quality images. CrossFire™
allows higher antialiasing, anisotropic filtering, shading, and texture settings. Adjust
your display configurations, experiment with the advanced 3D settings, and check
the effects with a real-time 3D-rendered previews within ATI Catalyst™ Control
Center.
PCIe 2.0
This motherboard supports the latest PCIe 2.0 device for twice the current speed
and bandwidth. This enhances system performance while still providing backward
compatibility to PCIe 1.0 devices.