Asus P5AD2-E Deluxe User Manual

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Serial ATA technology

The motherboard supports the Serial ATA technology through the Serial ATA
interfaces and the Intel

ICH6R. The SATA specification allows for thinner,

more flexible cables with lower pin count, reduced voltage requirement, and
up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate. See pages 2-26 and 2-27 for details.

Dual RAID solution

Onboard RAID controllers provide the motherboard with multi-RAID
functionality that allows you to select the best RAID solution using IDE or
Serial ATA hard disk drives.

The Intel

ICH6R allows RAID 0 and RAID 1 configuration for four SATA

connectors and supports the Intel

Matrix Storage Technology. See pages

2-26 and 5-17 for details.

If you are using IDE hard disk drives, the ITE8212 controller provides
RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD functionality for two IDE channels
that supports for up to four IDE hard disk drives. See pages 2-26 and 5-23
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 2-20 for details.

8-channel high definition audio

Onboard is the C-Media CMI9880 7.1-channel audio CODEC. This CODEC is
fully-compliant with Intel

High Definition Audio standard (192 KHz, 24-bit

audio). With the CODEC, 8-channel audio ports, and S/PDIF interfaces, you
can connect your computer to home theater decoders to produce
crystal-clear digital audio.

The CMI9880 CODEC comes with a software application that features jack
detection to monitor the plugging status of each jack, impedance sensing
to determine audio device classes, and pre-defined equalization for various
audio devices. See pages 2-23 to 2-24, and page 5-11 for details.