Asus M3A78-CM - Manual (Page 13)

AMD 780V
The AMD 780V Northbridge is the latest AMD chipset designed for both
HT1.0 and 5200MT/s HyperTransport™ 3.0 (HT 3.0) interface speed
and external graphics in PCI Express™ 2.0 standard. It features the
integrated ATI RV610-based graphics and fully DirectX 10.0 compliant.
DVI Interface
DVI (Digital Visual Interface) provides high visual quality of digital
display devices such as LCD monitors. The interface of this
motherboard supports dual VGA output both DVI and RGB and HDCP
compliant allowing playback of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
To ensure high visual quality, install Windows Media Player 11 or later versions when
you connect a display monitor to the DisplayPort, VGA, or DVI port, or when you connect
two display monitors to any two of these three ports.
DisplayPort
This motherboard introduces the new digital display interface standard
- DisplayPort. This new design features a small and user-friendly
connector. It delivers higher performance of resolution, refresh rate,
and color depth and improves digital display connectivity.
Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology
The motherboard supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on
the new SATA 3Gb/s storage specification. The onboard Southbridge
chipset allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD configurations for
Serial ATA drives.
8-channel High Definition Audio
The onboard 8-channel VT1708B/S High Definition Audio CODEC
enables high-quality audio that automatically detects peripherals
plugged into the audio I/O jacks. VT1708B/S also supports the
Windows ® Vista Premium OS.
USB 2.0 technology
USB 2.0 is the latest connectivity standard for next generation
components and peripherals. Backwards compatible with current USB
1.1 peripherals, USB 2.0 delivers transfer speeds up to 40 times faster
at 480Mb/s, for easy connectivity and ultra-fast data transfers.
1.3.2 Innovative ASUS features
ASUS MyLogo2™
Turn your favorite photos into 256-color boot logos to personalize your
system.
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 is an auto-recovery tool that allows you to
restore a corrupted BIOS file using the bundled support DVD, floppy
disk, or USB disk that contains the BIOS file.
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