Asus Motherboard A8N-SLI - Manual (Page 19)

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HyperTransport™ Technology HyperTransport™ Technology HyperTransport™ Technology HyperTransport™ Technology HyperTransport™ Technology
HyperTransport™ Technology is a high-speed, low latency, point-to-point
link designed to increase the communication speed between integrated
circuits in computers, networking and telecommunicatons equipment up to
48 times faster than other existing technologies.
Dual Channel DDR memory support Dual Channel DDR memory support Dual Channel DDR memory support Dual Channel DDR memory support Dual Channel DDR memory support
Employing the Double Data Rate (DDR) memory technology, the
motherboard supports up to 4GB of system memory using DDR400/333/
266 DIMMs. The ultra-fast 400MHz memory bus delivers the required
bandwidth for the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications.
See page 2-11.
Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology Serial ATA 3Gb/s technology
The motherboard supports the next-generation Serial ATA 3Gb/s
technology through the Serial ATA interfaces and the NVIDIA
® SLI™ chipset.
The SATA 3Gb/s specification provides twice the bandwidth of the current
Serial ATA products. Additionally, Serial ATA allows thinner, more flexible
cables with lower pin count, and reduced voltage requirement. See pages
2-21.
Dual RAID solution Dual RAID solution Dual RAID solution Dual RAID solution Dual RAID solution
Onboard RAID controllers provide the motherboard with dual-RAID
functionality that allows you to select the best RAID solution using IDE or
Serial ATA devices.
The NVIDIA ® nForce4 ® SLI™ allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0 and JBOD
configuration for four SATA and two PATA connectors. See page 5-18 for
details.
The Sil3114R controller supports four additional SATA connectors and
allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and a software patch to support RAID 5.
See pages 2-21, 2-22 and 5-18 for details.
PCI Express™ interface PCI Express™ interface PCI Express™ interface PCI Express™ interface 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 2-16 for details.