Asus M2N 1394 - Page 13

ASUS M2N 1394 1-3
NVIDIA
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GeForce™ 6100 GPU
and NVIDIA
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nForce™ 430 MCP chipsets
The NVIDIA
®
GeForce™ 6100 graphics processing unit (GPU) Northbridge
supports Microsoft
®
DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, and PCI Express interface.
The NVIDIA
®
nForce™ 430 media and communications processor (MCP)
Southbridge delivers NVIDIA
®
Gigabit and NVIDIA
®
MediaShield storage
management technology allowing easy RAID conguration (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID
0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD) for Serial ATA 3Gb/s.
DDR2 memory support
The motherboard supports DDR2 memory which features data transfer rates of
800MHz/667 MHz/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 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
specications. See page 1-20 for details.
AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology
The 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.