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Nvidia, Geforce™ 6100 gpu and nvidia, Nforce™ 430 mcp chipsets – Asus M2N-MX SE PLUS User Manual

Page 15: Pci express™ interface, Serial ata 3gb/s technology, Amd cool ‘n’ quiet technology

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ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS

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NVIDIA

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GeForce™ 6100 GPU

and NVIDIA

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nForce™ 430 MCP chipsets

The NVIDIA

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GeForce™ 6100 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Northbridge

supports Microsoft

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DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, and PCI Express interface.

The NVIDIA

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nForce™ 430 Media and Communications Processor (MCP)

Southbridge delivers NVIDIA

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Gigabit and NVIDIA

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MediaShield storage

management technology allowing easy RAID configuration (RAID 0, RAID 1, and

JBOD) for Serial ATA 3Gb/s.

DDR2 memory support

This motherboard supports DDR2 1066 memory which provides great performance

for 3D graphics and other memory demanding applications on the next generation

memory technology. See pages 1-13 to 1-16 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 3Gb/s technology

The motherboard supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on the

new SATA 3Gb/s storage specification. The onboard NVIDIA

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nForce 430 MCP

southbridge allows RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD configurations for four SATA

connectors.

AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology

This motherboard supports the AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology, which monitors

system operation and automatically adjusts CPU voltage and frequency for a cool

and quiet operating environment.