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Serial ata technology, Coaxial s/pdif out, Usb 2.0 technology – Asus A7N8X-XE User Manual

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ASUS A7N8X-XE Motherboard

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Serial ATA technology

Serial ATA is the next generation ATA specification that provides scalable

performance for today and tomorrow. With up to 150MB/s data transfer rate, Serial

ATA is faster than current Parallel ATA, while providing 100% software compatibility.

A7N8X-XE supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0 + 1. See page 1-19 for details.

Integrated 10/100 LAN controller

A 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet controller is embedded in this motherboard to give

you a fast and reliable connection to a local area network (LAN) and the Internet.

See page 1-20

Coaxial S/PDIF out

This motherboard provides convenient connectivity to external home theater audio

systems via an coaxial S/PDIF-out (SONY-PHILIPS Digital Interface) jack. it allows

to transfer digital audio without converting to analog format and keeps the best

signal quality. See page 1-17 for details.

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 480 MB/s, for easy connectivity

and ultra-fast data transfer rate. See pages1-17 & 1-20 for details.

AGP8X

AGP8X (AGP 3.0) is the mainstream VGA interface specification that enables

enhanced graphices performance with high bandwidth up to 2.13 GB/s. See page

1-14 for details.