Asus M2A-VM - Manual (Page 15)

ASUS M2A-VM 1-3
AMD ® .690G.. . .
and.ATI.SB600.chipsets..
The AMD 690G Northbridge is the latest AMD chipset designed to support
800/1000MHz HT(HyperTransport) interface speeds, Microsoft ® DirectX 9.0, Pixel
Shader V2.0 and dual VGA outputs, and max. shared memory up to 256MB.It
features the integrated ATI Radeon X1250 Graphics. See page 1-24 and 2-23 for
details.
Surroundview
The Surroundview function provides four independent monitors display with an
additional ATI VGA card for multi-tasking.See pages 1-20 and 2-23 for details.
DVI Interface .
DVI (Digital Visual Interface) provides high visual quality of digital display devices
such as LCD monitor. The interface of this motherboard supports dual VGA output
both DVI and RGB and is HDCP compliant allowing playback of HD DVD and
Blu-Ray Disc.. See page 1-24 for details.
DDR2 memory support . .......
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory which features data transfer rates of
800MHz/667MHz/533 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the
latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The dual-channel DDR2
architecture doubles the bandwidth of your system memory to boost system
performance, eliminating bottlenecks with peak bandwidths of up to 12.8 GB/s.
See page 1-13 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 1-20 for details.
Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s technology ......
The motherboard supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on the new
SATA 3.0Gb/s storage specification. The onboard ATI ® SB600 allows RAID 0, RAID
1 and RAID 10 configurations for four SATA connectors. See pages 1-27 and 2-25
for details.