Asus M4N98TD EVO - Manual (Page 16)

1-2 Chapter 1: Product Introduction
Chapter 1
1.3 Special features
1.3.1 Product highlights
AMD ® Phenom™ II / Athlon™ II / Sempron™ 100 Series Processors (socket AM3)
This motherboard supports AMD ® AM3 multi-core processors with unique L3 cache and
delivers better overclocking capabilities with less power consumption. It features
dual-channel DDR3 1333 memory support and accelerates data transfer rate up to 5200MT/s
via HyperTransport™ 3.0 based system bus. This motherboard also supports AMD ® CPUs in
the new 45nm manufacturing process.
NVIDIA nForce ® 980a SLI ® chipset
NVIDIA nForce ® 980a SLI ® media and communication processors (MCPs) power the most
feature-rich, high performance motherboards for AMD AM3 CPUs. The MCPs support the
NVIDIA ® Scalable Link Interface (SLI) technology that allows two graphics processing units
(GPUs) in a single system. The NVIDIA nFORCE ® 980a SLI ® chipset also supports six Serial
ATA 3.0 Gb/s devices, PCI Express x16 slots with NVIDIA ® SLI™ support at dual x16 mode,
and up to 12 USB 2.0 ports.
DDR3 2000(O.C.) support
This motherboard supports DDR3 2000(O.C.), which provides faster data transfer rate
and more bandwidth to increase memory data transfer rate and computing efficiency. This
enhances system performance in 3D graphics and other memory demanding applications.
NVIDIA ® SLI ® Technology support
NVIDIA SLI ® (Scalable Link Interface) makes use of the PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture´s
increased bandwidth and features intelligent hardware and software that allows two GPUs
to efficiently work together to deliver earth-shattering, scalable performance. For some
applications, this translates into nearly double the performance!
NVIDIA ® Hybrid SLI™
Hybrid SLI™ technology is a unique hybrid multi-GPU technology built upon NVIDIA. Hybrid
SLI™ turbo-charges performance of NVIDIA discrete graphics cards when combined with this
series motherboard GPUs. Hybrid SLI™ is independent on selected GeForce ® GPUs. Refer
to www.nvidia.com/hybridsli for more information.