Asus P5AD2 Premium User Manual

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Triple RAID solution

Onboard RAID controllers provide the motherboard with multi-RAID
functionality that allows you to select the best RAID solution using IDE or
Serial ATA devices.

The Intel

ICH6R allows RAID 0 and RAID 1 configuration for four SATA

connectors and supports the Intel

Matrix Storage Technology. See page

2-24 for details.

The Sil3114R controller supports four additional SATA connectors and
allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, JBOD, and a software patch to support
RAID 5. See page 2-25 for details.

If you are using IDE hard disk drives, the ITE8212 controller provides
RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD functionality for two IDE channels
that supports for up to four IDE hard disk drives. See page 2-23 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 2-17 for details.

8-channel high definition audio

Onboard is the C-Media CMI9880 7.1-channel audio CODEC. This CODEC is
fully-compliant with Intel

High Definition Audio standard (192 KHz, 24-bit

audio). With the CODEC, 8-channel audio ports, and S/PDIF interfaces, you
can connect your computer to home theater decoders to produce
crystal-clear digital audio.

The CMI9880 CODEC comes with a software application that features jack
detection to monitor the plugging status of each jack, impedance sensing
to determine audio device classes, and pre-defined equalization for various
audio devices. See page 2-20, 2-21, and 5-14 for details.

Dolby

Digital Live

Digital Live™

The CMI9880 audio CODEC comes with an AC-3 encoder capable of
transforming your computer’s digital audio contents into real-time Dolby

Digital stream. This digital stream passes through the S/PDIF out interfaces
to an AC-3 decoder for 7.1-channel playback. See page 5-18 for details.